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Community Art at the Library Page 4
Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
Heritage Fair: Honouring Our Veterans Page 2 Family Literacy Day Page 7 by Gary Barwin Pages 8 & 42
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Landon Branch Library Receives Gift from Wortley Jazz and Blues Fest On September 16, Landon Branch Library received a cheque for $2,500 from the organizers of the Wortley Jazz and Blues Fest. Organizers of the music festival held in August donated the proceeds Beacock Branch Library Receives LUSO’s raised to their branch, a well-loved neighbourhood destination and Community Award meeting place in Wortley Village. Thank you for your generosity! Pictured above, left to right: John Noubarian, London Musicians LUSO Community Services presented its fi rst Community Award to Association; Rod Lorimer and Marty Verweel, organizers of the Wortley Beacock Library, a longstanding partner in providing programs and Jazz and Blues Fest; Susanna Hubbard Krimmer, CEO, London Public services to the north east community. Over the years, beginning in Library; Bob Porter, President, Old South Community Association. 2003, collaboration on programming between Beacock and LUSO has included Shared Beginnings (parent-child literacy), Fast Track Tutoring, many programs for youth, and, starting in 2009, the Library Settlement Partnership program (newcomer services). Beacock staff and the Library system were recognized for their support of LUSO and their programming and for the community.
LONDON HERITAGE BLACK HISTORY: FAIR 2015: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Honouring Our Veterans Saturday, February 21 DANCE • SONG • SPOKEN WORD • HISTORY Central Library 9:15 am – 12:45 pm, Wolf Performance Hall Saturday, February 28 1:30 – 3:00 pm, Stevenson & Hunt Room Central Libraryy • Wolf Performance Hall Interested in London’s War Experience? TICKETS FOR PERFORMANCE & RECEPTION Join us for presentations and information sessions on topics Adults: $12 Children under 12: $6 related to remembering, honouring and researching war veterans. Topics include: Londoners in WWI, the City of London’s Streets of London Public Library is proud to host Honour program, Medals Research, Secrets of Radar Museum, London’s Annual Black History Month Closing Gala. the Brick Street Cemetery and Researching Military Records. Also available: hands-on access to records of Londoners who died in WWI and WWII, courtesy of the Library & Archives Canada Lest Presented in partnership We Forget program. View staffed exhibits by over twenty military with the London Black History and heritage associations. Co-sponsored by London Public Library Coordinating Committee. and London Heritage Council. Find details on presentations and talks in the program listings under Central Library.
PAGE 2 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/2015 Holiday Hours December 24 December 27 9 am-12:30 pm regular hours December 25 December 31 November 8 to December 20 all locations closed 9 am-12:30 pm Our annual campaign distributes over 6,000 new books to local children through 46 London agencies December 26 January 1, 2015 that work with families in our community. Buy books yourself or make a fi nancial donation so our Librarians all locations closed all locations closed can choose books for high-demand age groups. However you decide to give, bring your donation to any library branch. Central Library CLOSED Many local book stores offer a discount on books Sunday, February 15; Monday, February 16 purchased for A Book for Every Child® during the campaign. Your donated books are collected at (Family Day Weekend) the stores by Friends of the London Public Library volunteers and delivered to the library. (see page 43 for list of participating book stores) SUNDAY HOURS Central Library will be closed: OPEN THE WORLD OF READING FOR A CHILD December 7, 14, 21 & 28 Sunday service resumes January 4, 2015.
is a writer, composer, multimedia artist and Gary educator. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry and fi ction, plus booksk for both teens and children. His work has been widely performed, Barwin broadcast, anthologized and published nationally and internationally. Visit him at www.garybarwin.com
Writer-in-Residence at Central Library Gary Barwin is available, by appointment, Gary welcomes all writers, beginning or The Writer-in-Residence program is to meet with writers to provide individual experienced, to talk to him about their a co-sponsored project between the consultation and feedback on writing. He work and about living the writer’s life. Canada Council for the Arts, the James has offi ce hours at Central Library and Gary’s invitation goes out to youth too! A. and Marjorie Spenceley Fund, Western`s Western University until April 2015. Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western`s You can submit work to Gary in advance Department of English and Writing Studies, Gary’s Offi ce Hours (by appointment) of your appointment by sending it to and London Public Library. Special Central Library [email protected]. Submissions acknowledgement goes to the Canada Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 4–7 pm need to be a maximum length of fi ve pages Council for the Arts for their funding To make an appointment with Gary, email for poetry and 15 pages for prose. support making this program possible. [email protected] or call 519-661-4600.
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Beacock Mural in Meeting Room A Community Art at the Library New murals at two library locations were wall. Then the mural expanded into two, allowed the kids to participate in a way the result of community art projects led by the second one at Crouch Branch Library. beyond just learning painting techniques. artist Jeremy Jeresky over the summer. Library staff at Beacock and Crouch saw a It allowed them to participate in a more Beacock and Crouch branch libraries fantastic opportunity to work with partner conceptual way, to also be part of the invited the community to come out to agencies on projects that promoted design and composition. paint and leave a lasting impression on community building through art. The idea the walls of their libraries. With Jeremy’s took off and for weeks neighbourhood Jeremy saw the skill levels of the instruction and guidance, participants, folks, mostly youth, were painting murals participants grow throughout the weeks, mostly youth and children, spent time at their libraries under the guidance of a something he found very encouraging. He every week working on the murals while professional artist and community worker. saw that the kids had ideas to contribute and building skills, confi dence and community. gave them room to make adjustments to the murals. What he felt from them was Jeremy wanted the theme of the murals to a sense of empowerment that they were Jeremy got into art programming at be fantasy landscapes, really whimsical, adding to the space, to their library. the libraries through the New School of colourful and with a lot of movement. Colour, a community-based arts program He designed a motif with mountains Library staff have seen the pride and that partners with agencies in London and trees and rivers, but made space sense of ownership that participants to provide art programming in locations for fantasy characters so the kids could and community members feel about the throughout the city. Because the Library create something of their own to add to murals at their libraries. The projects have is community space and our locations are the landscape. Being invited to create left a lasting impression on the walls and recognized neighbourhood destinations, a fantasy creature to put into the mural within the community. it was a natural fi t for us to work with Jeremy’s New School of Colour to bring art sessions, and then the murals, to the “In a sense it’s place making, a term that’s used a lot in community. the community development fi eld, using culture, a cultural From the beginning of the summer Jeremy endeavour, to add their sensibility of what this place is and means to wanted to do a mural at Beacock, so he them. That’s pretty powerful when they’re given the opportunity to approached Maria, the supervisor at make that kind of statement in terms of place making.” Beacock, who was excited about the idea Jeremy Jeresky, of a mural as a community development Artist and Community Worker project and a lasting piece of art on the
PAGE 4 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/2015 The New School of Colour works with Ark Aid Street Mission, Crouch Neighbourhood Resource Centre, Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre, LUSO Community Services and South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre to deliver free art programming to youth and adults facing social and economic barriers. A grant from the Trillium Foundation of Ontario in 2012 made it possible for the New School of Colour to expand its art programming and offer art sessions in locations throughout London. The mural projects were part of that programming. newschoolofcolour.com
Presenting Partners NG and TNF brought to you by LONDON PUBLIC MarchLIBRARY 24 25 Training and Practice: Part of the Experience & Jeremy started the murals by drawing the outlines on the walls. The Second night added next step was taking the participants through a training process due to popular7 pm demand! to prepare them for painting. They fi rst practiced painting on Wolf Performance Hall illustration boards and when their skills had developed, they were Tickets: $20 ready to start painting directly on the wall. Each mural took several Call 519-661-5122 for weeks to complete, with participants coming out for a couple of tickets go on tickets or information. hours each week to painstakingly fi ll in the shapes. The black sale Dec. 8 Purchase tickets in person background was the last piece of the mural to be painted, again a at Central Library or MEC London. painstaking process of fi lling in around the shapes. Job well done! www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/2015 • PAGE 5
children | Gifts with Lasting Appeal! . . . . . and Literacy Appeal We all want to give great gifts – to a teacher, for birthdays, from problem solving to developing fi ne motor skills. It also Christmas, Hanukkah and other occasions. I like giving gifts with leads to some great conversations. Families can lasting play value. In my role as Literacy Facilitator at the Library I spend some wonderful time with each other while have bought prizes and resources for more than 100 family literacy putting a puzzle together. events, giving me a lot of experience in spotting games and books that are winners. Books always make fantastic gifts. For young chldren, favourite story books are something they read You really can’t go wrong giving a game or a over and over again. It’s also so satisfying to fi nd the right book puzzle as a family gift. Companies for an older child. Staff at book stores or the Library can help with like Blue Orange or Thinkfun suggestions for diferent ages. produce games like Swish, Smart Mouthh and Zingoo that help build literacy and other skills A favourite book I like to give to children aged 3 to 7, teachers while you’re having fun. These games give or young babysitters is Press Heree by Herve Tullet. The reader is lots of play value for the dollar. invited to press colour dots on each page, or to shake them, to make changes to the next page. Children of all ages want to read Wherever I go, whatever age group I work with, one it again and again. Because it’s magic! game stands out in my collection of resources: Spot It by Blue Orange Games. Players must spot the Teachers receive a lot of gifts each year. Let’s face it, they don’t matching picture on the cards. The game builds letter need another coffee mug. Consider giving a teacher a great book recognition and vocabulary, and helps with focusing or game for the classroom. Or make a donation, in their name, that skills. There are three ways to play and different supports literacy – to the Library or the A Book for Every Child® challenge levels. Adults be warned: the younger your opponent, campaign. the less likely you are to win. Gifts of games, puzzles and books are perfect for family games Everything old is new again and this is so true of puzzles! I usually nights or family reading times. These activities are opportunities take a 100 or 200 piece puzzle to events and it never fails to draw for so much learning and they give children the most precious gift a crowd of parents and children. They don’t leave until the last of all – your time and love! puzzle piece is in place. A lot of learning goes on at a puzzle table, Frances Cutt, Literacy Facilitator, London Public Library FUN-tastic SATURDAY Community JANUARY 24 DuffleBag Theatre presents 10 am to 2 pm Family Literacy CENTRAL LIBRARY Celebration ROBIN HOOD —251 Dundas St. 11 am WOLF PERFORMANCE HALL Remember to get your free tickets for the show starting at 10 am. Family Literacy Day is a national awareness initiative created Tickets are first come, first served. by ABC Life Literacy Canada. Taking time every day to read or do a simple learning activity with your child can dramatically A Family Literacy Day Event! improve his or her literacy skills. www.abclifeliteracy.ca/fl d/family-literacy-day Activities Low-cost and Our Community Partners in bringing you Family Literacy Day Fun: Pizza La Ribambelle, Ontario Early Years Centres, Investing in Children, stories London Children’s Museum, Frontier College, Storybook Gardens, Let’s Talk Science, Child and Youth Network, Community Early Bring the Years Partnership, Collège Boréal, Centre de formation au rôle Crafts whole parental et de littératie pour les familles, Spelling Bee of Canada Draw prizes family. London Chapter, Parenting and Family Literacy Centres. Face and Drop in painting Play! give-aways anytime! | writer-in-residence
CAN CREATIVITY BECREATIVE WRITING BE TAUGHT by Gary Barwin
I’m often asked: “Can creative writing be taught? Can you teach creativityimagination?”
The answer is: Yes.
That was simple. So we’re done here. Goodbye.
But…I do have more to say. First let me illustrate how not to teach writingcreativity:
My fi rst day of Grad school. As requested, I arrived with a stack of writing to show my very fa- mous, prize-winning professor. He fl ipped through some pages disdainfully.
“You have far too little to say,” he said. He fl ipped through some more. “And you take far too long to say it.”
That was crushing, but somehow I kept going, if only to spite him. And now, years later, to write about how awful he was. But what did I learn? There’s nothing like writing out of bitterness? Maybe, but really I think I kept writing and trying to get better at it because of other more positive mentors. They helped me to connect my imagination with my own writing and with the writing of others. encouraged me. And they encouraged me to trust myself. Because learning to write — learning to be creative — is
all about trusting yourself: trusting that what interests you, what surprises, amuses,
engages, confuses, confounds, and compels you is worthwhile and is the
only way forward, whatever thatt looks like, even if it is different than what is
“supposed” to be.
I think everyone is we’re all naturally creative. You You just have to learn to be patient, quiet, or goofy enough to look around inside your own brain and see - the many different paths which are avail- able toto take, not just the one “sensible” or “obvious” one. To feel empowered to try these other ways.
I don’t think youyou learn to be creative. I think you yoratheru discover yyour own creativity.
And a good writing teacher can help you with this,. They can help you trust yourself, can
give you confi dence to move beyond your own comfort zone and can help guide you
toward your own (possibly new) enthusiasms.
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We want to be accessible to you. - in person, online, Accommodations for our programs and services or by phone with a are available. Contact us for details. credit card number Service dogs are welcome in the Library - prices for programs and at programs. include any taxes No program fee charge for anyone that may apply accompanying a person who requires - no refunds are given assistance. on program fees londonpubliclibrary.ca 519-661-4600 | computer classes Computer Classes
GETTING STARTED WITH COMPUTERS (series of 4 classes) Registration is required for this course. Our four week computer series is for beginners. Each class is 2 hours.
Week One: Computers. Learn the basic functions of the computer, practice using a mouse and find out about computers at your library in this hands-on session. Week Two: Internet. Learn about the Internet, how to find and use websites, and discover our top five favourite sites. Week Three: Email. Learn how to create, send and receive messages and find out about computers at your library. Week Four: Social Media. Learn about two popular sites: Facebook and Twitter. Register at any library location, by phone, 519-661-4600, or on our website. Free.
Date Time Location Register Starting
Jan 10-31, Saturdays 1-3 pm East London Jan. 3 Jan 10-31, Saturdays 2-4 pm Sherwood Dec 13 Jan 14-Feb 4, Wednesdays 2-4 pm Jalna Jan 2 Jan 14-Feb 4, Wednesdays, 2:30-4:30 pm Masonville Jan 3 Jan 28-Feb 18, Wednesdays 2-4 pm Byron Dec 27 Feb 4-25, Wednesdays 1:45-3:45 pm Sherwood Jan 7 Feb 7-28, Saturdays 1-3 pm East London Jan. 31 Feb 11-Mar 4, Wednesdays 2:30-4:30 pm Landon Jan 21 Feb 7-28, Saturdays 2-4 pm Central Jan 3
COMPUTER HELP Book a training session with our technology volunteers and get assistance in a small group setting. Get help with your questions about using a computer, the Internet, email and more. Contact the library location to register for a session, up to one week in advance.
Dates Time Location Session Length Wednesdays 10-11 am or East London 60 minutes Dec 3 &10, Jan 14 – Feb 25 11 am-12 pm Thursdays 6-7 pm or East London 60 minutes Dec 4 & 11, Jan 15 – Feb 26 7-8 pm Thursdays 1:30-3 pm Lambeth 30 minutes Dec 4, 11 & 18, Jan. 8 – Feb 26 Fridays 1:30-3:30 pm Lambeth 30 minutes Dec 5, 12, &19, Jan 9 – Feb 27 Saturdays 10 am-12 pm Sherwood 30 minutes Dec 6, 13 & 20, Jan 10 – Feb 28 Thursdays 1-3 pm Stoney Creek 30 minutes Dec 4, 11 & 18, Jan 8 – Feb 26 Fridays 1:30-4 pm Carson 30 minutes Feb 6 – 27
PAGE 10 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/15 computers & technology | Computers @ Your Library PUBLIC COMPUTERS FREE ACCESS WIRELESS INTERNET AVAILABLE AT ALL LIBRARIES 120 MINUTES PER DAY CONNECT AT THE LIBRARY* • Log On with your Library Card & PIN on your laptop or mobile device • Search the Internet • Check Email with your Log On information** • Use Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint • Print for a small fee
Ask Library Staff for more information about using the Library’s computers and wireless service, setting up a PIN and ensuring your Library Card is valid and up to date. *Wireless not available at Glanworth. **Library Card number and PIN.
Help With Your Mobile Device
London Public Library is here to help you access library services with your mobile device. If we are not familiar enough with your specific device or issues, library staff will be happy to refer you to resources and information that may help you better understand your device. London Public Library cannot be held responsible for any physical damage or lost data that may occur while assisting you with your device. Your Virtual Library
Volunteer Technology Tutors language lessons for your next trip Ask us about library volunteers who mango languages can help you with the basics of using a computer, email, social media and animated story books for family fun working online. Some can even help tumblebook library you with your laptop or tablet and a few speak more than one language. eMagazines to read on the go Tech Tutors are scheduled for two hour shifts at various library locations on zinio magazines weekdays, evenings and Saturdays. Ask library staff for complete details free access with your library card from our website or call 519-661-4600. www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/15 • PAGE 11 | storytimes
Storytimes encourage a life-long love of books and reading, promote early literacy and introduce young children and their parents or caregivers to age-appropriate books, rhymes and songs in a fun and interactive setting. Find the one that works best for you and join the fun!
Location Time Dates Register Starting
Books For Babies (from birth with a caregiver) Stories, songs, tickles and bouncing rhymes especially for baby and you! Best for babies who still enjoy laptime. Stoney Creek 10-10:30 am Wednesdays, Ongoing, except Dec 17, 24, 31 Drop in Stoney Creek 2-2:30 pm Thursdays, Ongoing, except Dec 18, 25, Jan 1 Drop in Beacock 10-10:30am Fridays, Ongoing Drop in Central 10:30-11 am Fridays, Ongoing Drop in
Westmount 10:00-10:30 am Tuesdays, Jan 6-Feb 24 Drop in Pond Mills 2-2:30 pm Wednesdays, Jan 7-Mar 25 Drop in Pond Mills 10:30-11 am Fridays, Jan 9- Mar 27 Drop in Byron 10:30-11 am Fridays, Jan 9-Feb 27 Drop in Masonville 10:30-11 am Fridays, Jan 9-Mar 27 Drop in Sherwood 10:45-11:15 am Wednesdays, Jan 14-Mar 4 Drop in East London 2:30-3 pm Wednesdays, Jan 14-Feb 18 Dec 16 Jalna 10-10:30 am Thursdays, Jan 15-Mar 5 Dec 16 Masonville 10:45-11:15 am Thursdays, Jan 15-Mar 5 Jan 8 Masonville 11:15-11:45 pm Fridays, Jan 16-May 8, except Mar 20, 27, Apr 3 Drop in Landon 11:30 am-12 pm Fridays, Jan 16-Feb 27 Drop in Cherryhill 10:30-11 am Wednesdays, Jan 21-Feb 25 Drop in
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Storytime (1 year and up with a caregiver) Stories, rhymes, songs and more. Central 10:30-11 am Mondays, Ongoing Drop in Stoney Creek 11-11:30 am Wednesdays, Ongoing, except Dec 17, 24, 31 Drop in Beacock 11-11:30 am Fridays, Ongoing Drop in
Westmount 11-11:30 am Tuesdays, Jan 6-Feb 24 Drop in
Byron 10:30-11 am Thursdays, Jan 8-Feb 26 Drop in
Byron 2:30-3 pm Thursdays, Jan 8-Feb. 26 Drop in
Pond Mills 10:30-11 am Thursdays, Jan 8-Mar 5 Drop in
Sherwood 9:30-10:15 am Wednesdays, Jan 14-Mar 4 Drop in
Sherwood 10-10:45 am Thursdays, Jan 15-Mar 5 Drop in
Masonville 9:30-10:15 am Thursdays, Jan 15-Mar 5 Jan.8
Masonville 10-10:45 am Fridays, Jan 16-May 8, except Mar 20, 27 Apr 3 Drop in
Landon 10:30-11:15 am Fridays, Jan 16-Feb 27 Drop in
Cherryhill 9:30-10 am Wednesdays, Jan 21-Feb 25 Jan 7
Family and Friends Storytime (all ages with a caregiver) Stories, songs, rhymes and other fun activities! Crouch 10:30-11:15 am Fridays, Ongoing, except Dec 26 Drop in
Carson 10:30-11:15 am Wednesdays, Dec 3-Feb 25, except Dec 24, 31 Drop in
East London 10:30-11 am Thursdays, Jan 8-Feb 26 Drop in
Jalna 10-10:30 am Tuesdays, Jan 13-Mar 3 Drop in
Jalna 10-10:30 am Wednesdays, Jan 14-Mar 4 Drop in
Lambeth 10:30-11 am Saturdays, Jan 17-Feb 28 Drop in
For additional Storytimes based on holidays or special themes, check your branch listings or the Storytime flyer.
www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/15 • PAGE 13 | english as a second language English Conversational Circles For Newcomers to Canada ESL Classes Celebrate diversity through friendship and cultural exchange. These classes are offered by the Thames Valley District School All newcomers are welcome! Co-sponsor: London Cross Board, G.A. Wheable Centre for Adult Education. Free to Cultural Learner Centre. Funded by Citizenship and Immigration citizens, landed immigrants and refugees. Non-permanent Canada. Call 519-432-1133 x224 to register or for information residents may attend for a fee. To register, participants must about volunteering for this program. ww.lcclc.org provide recent Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) scores. No class December 22 to January 10. For more information and to register call the TVDSB Adult ESL office, 519-452-2000 x69674. DAY & TIME LOCATION Mondays, 7 – 8:30 pm Central ESL Class for Adult Newcomers Cherryhill Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8 pm These classes focus on learning English for day-to-day use. Masonville Emphasis is on Canadian culture, customs and communities. Jalna Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8 pm There will be lots of opportunity to talk with English speakers. Beacock No class December 22 to January 3. Thursdays, 6:30 – 8 pm Sherwood DAY & TIME LOCATION ESL Reading Groups Tuesdays, 9:15 am – 12 pm Stoney Creek Practice reading and speaking English in a group. We provide Wednesdays, 9:15 – 11:45 am Masonville books and other interesting things to read. No meeting December 22 to January 10. Listening and Speaking for ESL Learners Improve your English without pressure or tests. Learn listening, DAY & TIME LOCATION speaking, pronunciation and grammar, without memorizing Tuesdays, 6:30 – 7:30 pm Beacock rules. Suitable for intermediate to advanced ESL learners. No Thursdays, 3:30 – 5 pm Cherryhill class December 24 or 31. Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12 pm Central DAY & TIME LOCATION Saturdays, 10:15 – 11:45 am Masonville Saturdays,11 am – 12 pm. Stoney Creek Wednesdays, 6:30 — 8:30 pm Central
ESL for Seniors ESL for Children These classes are specially designed for the older immigrant, Wacky Word Fun with emphasis on the language of everyday living and Canadian Improve your English skills the fun way! Drop in, meet new customs and culture. There will be friends and enjoy a variety of games and activities designed lots of opportunity to talk with English speakers. to help your language skills. DAY & TIME LOCATION DAY & TIME LOCATION Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:15 –11:45 am Cherryhill 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month, 2 – 3:30 pm Stoney Creek Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12 pm Central Saturdays, 11 am – 1 pm Jalna DOWNLOAD NEWSPAPERS Library PressDisplay FREE with your library card Get same-day access to newspapers from around londonpubliclibrary.ca/digital the world – from 90 countries, in 44 languages. londonpubliclibrary.ca/Digital
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Library Settlement Partnership (LSP) Classes & Workshops
Forms Workshop English Pronunciation Group Are you new to Canada? Do you need help filling out a form Improve your vocabulary through reading and discussion. or an application? Visit our Library Settlement workers for No class December 22 to January 3. assistance with filling out: work and study permits, interim federal health documents, protected person documents, DAY & TIME LOCATION permanent resident card applications and replacements, Tuesdays, 1 – 3 pm Sherwood citizenship applications, GST/HST and passport applications. Thursdays, 3:30 – 5 pm Central Contact the LSP office 226-700-2226. Saturdays, 2 – 4 pm Sherwood DAY & TIME LOCATION Mondays, 1 – 3 pm Central Preparing for the Canadian Citizenship Test DAY & TIME LOCATION English Language Skills Improvement Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6 – 7:30 pm Central For intermediate to advanced English language learners. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6 – 8 pm Beacock Improve your English skills through conversation, reading and activities. Wednesdays, 6 – 8 pm Sherwood Saturdays, 11 am – 1 pm Jalna DAY & TIME LOCATION Mondays, 5 – 6:30 pm Central
ONLINE RESOURCES for ESL and CITIZENSHIP TEST
Road to IELTS: Prepare for the IELTS test (International Language Testing System). Find practice tests, hints and tips on My Canada: Learn English while learning about Canada. Topics types of questions on the test, include Canadian history, government, science, culture, climate and interactive activities and advice more. Plus, basics like what coins are worth and how to interact videos from experts. with your doctor. Great for preparing for the Citizenship test too! Staff can show you how to access these resources with your library card. www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/15 • PAGE 15 | beacock
| Beacock I’m Home (10-12 yrs) | General 1280 Huron St. Dec. 6, Saturday, 9:30-2:30pm 519-451-8140 Register starting Nov. 15. Cost: $35. Beacock Coffee and Games Fun! Parent must attend 11:30 am - 2:30 pm. Ongoing, Fridays, 10-11:30 am | Children A program designed to support parents in Beginner to Intermediate Scrabble and preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to Euchre players needed! Non-competitive You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and move successfully to safe, home-based self cards and games fun held in a friendly, social Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. care. Parent attendance is required for part environment. Lots of board games available, of the program. Lunch break for Saturday or bring your own. Everyone welcome! Beacock Community Playgroup sessions is 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. Financial (birth-6 yrs with caregiver) assistance may be available, please inquire Literacy and Basic Skills Program Ongoing, Thursdays, 9:30-3 pm at registration. Co-sponsor: London Children’s Ongoing, Tuesdays, 5:30-9 pm Parents, caregivers and children participate in Connection. Register with Irene at Literacy London, interactive early learning activities. Program 519-452-2660 x69712. is closed noon to 1 pm for lunch. Presented Holiday Magic! A part-time, one-to-one, small group adult by Ontario Early Years Centre, London North- Dec. 13, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm literacy program offered by Literacy London. Centre (519-434-3644). Make a dazzling gift to give to someone special. Enjoy a National Film Board of Seniors Group in French (50+) Shared Beginnings (LUSO): Where Canada short animated film. For the whole Ongoing, Tuesdays, 10:30-12:30 pm Adults and Children Learn Together family. Contact Isabelle for more information, 519- (birth-6 yrs with caregiver) 660-0875 x312. Ongoing, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30 am Orchestra London Cushion Concerts Feel like you haven’t spoken French in a long Enjoy crafts, games, songs, stories and much for Young Children time? You’re not the only one. This group is more. Contact LUSO Community Services Three Musical Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf focused on educational and health information (519-452-1466) for more information. Drop in. Jan. 24, Saturday, 10:00 -10:45 am sessions, sharing experiences, making friends OR 11:30-12:15 pm. and having fun in French! Korean Language Fun Tickets: $8 per person. Ongoing, Saturday, 10-11:30 am Join Orchestra London musicians for a unique Beacock Book Club Meet other families interested in exploring the series designed for young children six and Ongoing, first Wed/month, 7-9pm world of Korea! We”ll learn a basic level of under. Children must be accompanied by Book discussion group. Call the branch for the Korean language and enjoy singing and a caregiver. Contact the Orchestra London book titles and information. storytime. All families are welcome! Box Office to order tickets, by phone: 519- 679-8778, or in person: 609 Wellington Street Beacock Knitters Read Around the Block (Family) Monday-Friday, 10 am-4 pm. Tickets will be Ongoing, Wednesdays, 1-4 pm Dec. 6, Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm available at the door, subject to availability, 30 Join the group if you’re an experienced knitter At the Carling-Thames Family Centre. minutes before the performance. or if you want to learn to knit. It’s a great way 335 Belfield Street to meet new people and be creative. A special community celebration of family Valentine’s Day Craft literacy. These events feature games, (Family) Housing Support Services activities, crafts, food, iPads and fun for Feb. 14, Saturday, Ongoing, Thursdays, 9-3:30 pm the whole family! Brought to you with 2:30-4 pm For an appointment call 519-964-3663. the support of London Public Show someone This service is for low income Londoners who Library, the Child and you care by making are having housing problems. If you are at Youth Network, and a Valentine’s craft for risk of homelessness you may be able to get Family Centres. someone special! financial help to stay in your current housing Get crafty and or get new housing. Help may be available creative with our for rental arrears, last month’s rent deposit, Make It! edition emergency energy costs and moving costs. of Read Around the Housing Support Workers can help with Block. Build a better, applications, give information and refer you smarter world with our to community resources. Housing Support fun materials and activities. Services at The Salvation Army Centre of Drop in. Hope administers The Housing Stability Fund.
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Byron Book Club Ongoing-June 25, last Thurs/month, 7-8 pm No meeting in December. An informal book discussion led by staff and open to all. Contact the branch for the upcoming title. New members welcome! Byron Creative Craft Circle Mystery Book Club | Byron Ongoing-May 14, Thursdays, 9 am - 12 noon Ongoing, 2nd Wed./month, 7-8:45 pm 1295 Commissioners Rd. W. No program Dec. 11, Jan. 1 or Mar. 19. Add a little mystery to your life! Join us to 519-471-4000 Join us as we work on our own projects. discuss great mystery novels. Contact the branch for more information. | Children Health and Wellness Series Come and Paint @ Byron Dec. 17, Jan. 29, Feb. 29, 6-7 pm Ongoing-June 18, Thursdays, 1-4 pm You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and No program Dec. 25, Jan. 1 or Mar. 19 Improve your well being by attending our Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. workshops facilitated by Alevia Health & Drop in with your own paint supplies for an informal afternoon of painting. All welcome! Wellness staff. Byron Community Playgroup Wed. Dec. 17: Stretching Techniques (birth-6 yrs with caregiver) Tea Talk and Matinee 2014-2015 Thurs. Jan. 29: Proper Pillow Use & Support Ongoing, Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 am Thurs. Feb. 26: Detoxification & Fibromyalgia See page 40 for list of plays, dates and No playgroup Dec. 24 and 31. information on purchasing tickets. Parents, caregivers and children participate Winter Wonderland Movies for Families in interactive, early learning activities. Offered Holiday Open House @ Byron Jan. 3-31, Saturdays, 1-4 pm with Ontario Early Years Centre, London West. Join us every Saturday afternoon in January Dec. 18, Thursday, 6:30-8:30 pm for a movie picked by you, the audience! We Join to welcome the holiday season with warm Chess in the Library (7+ yrs) cider, gingerbread cookies, caroling, seasonal will have several choices and the crowd picks Jan. 6-Feb. 24, Tuesdays, 4-5:30 pm what to watch. crafts and live music featuring the group Celtic Do you enjoy playing chess, but have no one Knot and Friends. Make a lovely ornament to to play against? Members gather each week to take home. Prenatal Classes play casual, blitz and CFC rated chess games. Jan. 21-Mar. 4, Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm Players of all strengths are welcome to come Register online with Middlesex-London Painting with Peter Lam and play with volunteers from Chess in the Jan. 20-Mar. 10, Tuesdays, 10-12 Health Unit. Cost: $10. Library, London Chapter. Drop in. www.healthunit.com/prenatalhealth Register starting Dec 20. Cost: $70, due Meet other families and learn about pregnancy, at time of registration. Non-refundable. Fun Flicks @ Byron London artist Peter Lam provides guidance for coping through labour and birth, physical and Jan. 16, 2:30-4 pm emotional changes after birth, infant feeding, artists of all levels. A list of painting materials Free tickets available starting Jan. 3. will be provided. infant safety, and how to care for your new Join us on your PA Day for some fun! We’ll baby. Register early in your pregnancy, have a movie, door prizes and refreshments classes fill quickly. More class times and Prenatal Classes so you can enjoy your day off. Call the branch Jan. 20-Feb. 24, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm locations are listed on the MLHU website. one week ahead to find out what is showing. Fee can be waived. Co-sponsor: Middlesex- Register online with Middlesex-London London Health Unit. Health Unit. Cost: $10. Love Is In The Air www.healthunit.com/prenatalhealth Valentine’s Card Craft (Family) Meet other families and learn about pregnancy, Educational Opportunities for Seniors Feb. 14, Saturday, 10 am-2 pm Jan. 28, Wednesday, 1:30-3:00 pm coping through labour and birth, physical and Drop in for a card-making craft to make cards emotional changes after birth, infant feeding, Topic: Tax Credits and Rebates for Seniors for the ones you love! A free presentation from community experts, infant safety, and how to care for your new for seniors. Pick up a free copy of the booklet, baby. Register early in your pregnancy, Educational Opportunities for Seniors 2014- classes fill quickly. More class times and 2015, at your local library. For more information, locations are listed on the MLHU website. call Third Age Outreach, St. Joseph’s Health Fee can be waived. Co-sponsor: Middlesex- Care, 519-661-1621 or 519-661-1620. London Health Unit.
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Tai Chi for Beginners | General | Central Jan. 20-Mar. 10, Tuesdays, 1-2 pm 251 Dundas St. Register starting Dec. 23. Cost: $45. Board Games at Carson! 519-661-4600 An instructor from the Phoenix Tai Chi Centre Ongoing, Library hours leads this class suitable for beginners. Drop in and enjoy one of our many board Participants will be required to sign a waiver games. We have old favourites and brand to hand in to instructor at the first class. Fee new ones. | Spriet Family is non-refundable unless course is cancelled. Children’s Library Tatting, Anyone? Tai Chi for Intermediates Ongoing, 3rd Sat/month, 1:30-4:30 pm Jan. 20-Mar. 10, Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 pm Learn the art of tatting. Members of the London You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and Register starting Dec 23. Cost: $45. Fringe Element Tatters will demonstrate and Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. An instructor from the Phoenix Tai Chi Centre teach those interested in keeping this art form leads this class suitable for intermediates, alive. Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a Christmas Tree Ornaments students who have completed the beginners particularly durable lace constructed through a Dec. 6 & 13, Saturdays, Library hours course and/or have a knowledge of the first series of knots and loops. Make lace edging, Use our supplies and your imagination to 19 moves of the Yang Tai Chi set. Participants jewelry, doilies, collars and other decorative create decorations for the Children’s Library will be required to sign a waiver to hand in pieces. Please bring your tatting supplies if and Teen Annex Christmas trees. to instructor at the first class. Fee is non- you already have some. Basic supplies will refundable unless course is cancelled. be provided for beginners. Happy Hanukkah Storytime (Family) Dec. 10, Wednesday, 10:30-11:15 am T-shirt to Scarf (12+ yrs) Join us for stories, crafts & refreshments. | Carson Dec. 4, Thursday, 6:30-7:15 pm Register starting Nov 19. Very Merry Ventriloquism with Sue! 465 Quebec St. (Family) 519-438-4287 Recycle an old t-shirt by turning it into an infinity scarf. Makes a great gift. Bring an Dec. 20, Saturday, 2:30-3:15 pm unwrinkled adult size t-shirt to the program. Sue’s show is full of merriment, seasonal singing and festive fun. Sue VanDuynhoven | Children Carson Community Book Club uses ventriloquial magic to bring her puppet Dec. 11, Jan. 8 & Feb. 12, Thursdays, 7 pm stars alive! You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and Join us for lively discussions about great Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. books. New members are always welcome. Winter Holiday Crafts (Family) Books available at the branch one month prior Dec. 20-Jan. 3, Daily, Library hours French Homework Club (JK-grade 8) to each meeting. Dec. 11: A Christmas Carol; Make a craft to take home. Ongoing, Tuesdays, 6-7:30 pm, 4-5 pm Jan 8: The Age of Miracles; Feb. 12: The Call All Tuesdays EXCEPT 1st Tues of the month. of the Wild. Button Making (5+ yrs) Do you have a child in French first language Dec. 22, Monday, 2:30-3:30 pm or French Immersion school? Community Clearing Clutter Support Group Drop in to design and create your own button! volunteers are available at Carson Branch to Jan. 16-Mar. 6, Fridays, 9:30-11:30 am provide homework help and support. Drop in. Register with Kim Tremblay at CMHA From Naughty to Nice: an NFB film Middlesex-My Sister’s Place, 519-679-9570 Dec. 23, Tuesday, 2:30-3 pm Holiday Movie! x27, or Kara Kelly at CMHA Middlesex, Featuring the work of the internationally Dec. 30, Tuesday, 2-4 pm Queens Ave. site, 519-668-0624 x350. renowned Old Trout Puppet Workshop, this Celebrate the season with a classic holiday A support group for individuals who struggle amusing cautionary tale about Santa Claus is movie at the library. with the distress of having too much stuff and a treat for the whole family. (25 mins). no space to store it. Button Making (5+ yrs) Jan. 16, Friday, 2-4 pm Holiday Crafts at Carson Drop in to design and create your own button! December, Library hours Drop in during the month of December to Valentine Day Craft make a fun holiday craft. Dec. 2-6: candy Feb. 3-14, Library hours cane mouse; Dec. 9-13: ornament; Dec. Come in and make a valentine for that special 16-20: holiday card. someone. Drop in.
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Le premier cadeau du Père Noël: un film Captain Underpants: The Epic Event Tune Time! (Family) de l’ONF/NFB Jan. 10, Saturday, 2-4 pm Jan. 20-Mar. 10, Tuesdays, 10:30-11 am Dec. 23, Tuesday, 3-3:30 pm To be brief, we want to win a framed pair of This caregiver & child program supports early Ce récit à la fois amusant et édifiant sur le Père underpants signed by author Dav Pilkey. And literacy through rhyme, rhythm, and repetition Noël met en valeur l’inégalable performance de we need you! Come to our epic event and pin – the language of music. la troupe canadienne de réputation mondiale, the undies on the Captain, enter the guess- l’Old Trout Puppet Workshop. (25 min). the-number-of-underpants contest, find the FUN-tastic Community Celebration of hidden underpants, write your own superhero Family Literacy Day, 2015 Rapunzel: A Puppet Show (Family) profile and lots more. You don’t have to be in Jan. 24, Saturday, 10 am-2 pm Dec. 29, Monday, 2:30-3 pm fourth grade or have a bad haircut to attend – Bring the whole family to this fun-filled Puppetworks presents their version of but it might help. community celebration of Family Literacy Day. Rapunzel in this fast paced, laugh-filled story Learn more about how talking, reading, playing with audience participation. Paper Art Club (5+ yrs) and singing together helps your children – it Jan. 10-Mar. 28 2-4 pm all starts with words! Crafts and activities, Happy Noon Year’s Eve! (Family) No club meeting Feb. 14 & 21. stories and music, face painting, pizza (low- Dec. 31, Wednesday, 11 am-12:15 pm Join the Paper Art Club from Western cost), draw prizes and more! There will also Join us for a family friendly version of New University for origami instruction. Learn some be a special theatrical presentation of Robin Year’s Eve filled with party hats & noise great techniques and create awesome artwork. Hood by DuffleBag Theatre at 11 am in the makers, games, refreshments and bubble Wolf Performance Hall. DuffleBag Theatre is wrap “fireworks” as we count down to noon. Pop Up Storytime (Family) presented by Prologue to the Performing Arts. Jan. 10-Mar. 7, Saturdays, 10:30-11 am Blow The House Down Puppet Theatre: No storytime Jan. 24. DuffleBag Theatre presents Robin Hood Goldilocks and The 3 Bears, Pop in to the Children’s Library for wintery Jan. 24, Saturday, 11-11:50 am 3 Billy Goats Gruff (Family) Saturday morning stories, songs and fun in Free tickets available starting 1 hour before Jan. 2, Friday, 3-3:30 pm front of the fireplace. the performance. How could one cute little blond girl wander off The ever popular DuffleBag Theatre brings the the beaten path and create such havoc in the PA Day Craft classic story of Robin Hood to life in their fun- house of the 3 bears? Meanwhile, the Gruff Jan. 16, Friday, Library hours filled and humourous fashion using audience bros tangle with the toll bridge Troll as they try Drop in and make a craft to take home. members as the stars. This presentation is to cross that famous bridge. Don’t miss these part of our FUN-tastic Community Celebration favourite tales with our Blow The House Down Films courts de l’ONF of Family Literacy Day. DuffleBag Theatre is Puppet Theatre twist, of course. Jan. 16, Friday, 3-3:30 pm presented by Prologue to the Performing Arts. Regardez 30 minutes de films courts de l’ONF / NFB pour les enfants. Kids Are Kind Feb. 2-28, Daily, Library hours NFB Shorts It’s easy to be kind. Decorate a bookmark, Jan. 16, Friday, 2:30-3 pm include a kind message and then hide it in Watch a half hour of short National Film Board a book for another patron to find. You will of Canada films for children. brighten someone’s day!
Paper Heart Cards (6+ yrs) Feb. 7, Saturday, 3-4:30 pm Create a Valentine’s Day card inspired by the unusual combination of newspaper and water colours (while supplies last).
Celebrate Freedom to Read Week (Family) Feb. 22-28, Daily, Library hours Borrow a challenged book from our display and receive a unique button made by our staff.
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| Teens
Trans Youth London (12-20 yrs) Ongoing, Thursdays, 6-8 pm Do you feel like you don’t fit into your body? Have you been hiding who you are? Does your gender not match your felt gender? If you are looking for a safe place to explore your gender identity, come out and meet with other Trans Youth just like yourself. Introduction and discussion Origami Jewellery (13-19 yrs) by Professor Janina Falkowska Dec. 13, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm Central Library at some screenings. Create funky, handmade origami jewellery. Wolf Performance Hall Wear it or gift it this holiday season. Ida YOUth Movie Night at the Central Jan. 7, Wednesday, 6:30 pm Library! (13-24 yrs) Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge Dec. 17, Jan. 14, Feb. 11, Wednesdays, of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret 5:30-8:30 pm dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. Film by Pawel Bring your friends, your pillows and your Pawlikowski. (80 min). blankets to catch a recently released movie or documentary on the big screen. Light Bejbi Blues/Baby Blues snacks are provided and there are some great Jan. 14, Wednesday, 6:30 pm prizes to be won! Call 519-661-4600 to find out This is a realistic drama portraying the social issue of early what’s playing. This program is a partnership parenthood. Two kids become parents and raise their child with Youth Opportunities Unlimited. together. Carefree lifestyle, skateboarding with friends, colorful outfits, parties with sex, alcohol and drugs … The Next Best Book Club (12-18) Film by Katarzyna Roslaniec. (100 min). Dec. 20, Jan. 17, Feb. 14, Saturdays, 3-4 pm Meet once a month to talk about cool books Papusza for teens. If you’re 12 to 18, and like to read, Jan. 17, Saturday, 2pm drop in! About the rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her MAKE LED Throwies (9-13 yrs) relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski. Film by Dec. 22, Monday, 3-3:30 pm Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze. (130 min). Register starting December 8. Easy to make and so much fun. These LEDs Pregi/The Welts stay lit until you take them apart. The magnetic Jan. 22, Thursday, 6:30 pm attachment makes them easy to stick to stuff. This is the story of the abusive childhood of a boy called Wojtek, It will stay lit for about a week but they are brought up just by his father after the death of his mother, and easy to make, so you should never run out! its effect on his adult life. Film by Magdalena Piekorz. (89 min).
Fabulous Arm Knit Infinity Scarf! (14-18 yrs) Mój Rower/My Father’s Bike Jan. 10, Saturday, 2-3:30 pm Jan. 29, Thursday, 6:30 pm Register starting Jan. 5. The film portrays difficult family relations between father, son A fast and easy way to knit a yarn scarf on and grandson. The main characters, at odds with one another, your own hands. With this technique you’ll depart together on a journey that will allow them to find a long be able to create a scarf in less than an hour. lost bond between them. This comedy-drama looks with deep insight into male nature and the difficult relations between Nail Polish Marble Mugs (11-15 yrs) them. Film by Wojciech Trzaskalski. (90 min). Feb. 7, Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm Join us to make Marble Mugs. Simply give These screenings are made possible thanks a white mug a “watercolour” manicure! This to the Polish Consulate in Toronto. might be just the perfect gift for a Valentine. All films have English subtitles. White mugs provided. Two hours free validated parking in Citi Plaza during library hours.
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| General Science Fiction London Book Club Got the Facts on Milk? (documentary) Ongoing, first Sat/month, 1:30-4:30 pm Feed Your Intellect Film Series Forest City GO Club Discuss books with other sci-fi enthusiasts. Dec. 4, Thursday, 6:30 pm Ongoing, Tuesdays, 6-9 pm Book lists available at the library or online at This entertaining, award winning feature Come on out to play the ancient strategy sflondon.ca. Drop in. December:The Hundred documentary dares to question the board game, GO. Easy to learn! Fun for all (book). January: Being John Malkovich (film). conventional wisdom of the much publicized ages! Contact Andy Begbie for details at February: The Map of Time (book). health benefits of milk and dairy products. The [email protected]. Meet on the 1st film is a humorous, yet shocking, exposition floor of the library. Noon Meditation that provokes serious thought about this Ongoing, Tuesdays, 12-1 pm everyday staple. Community Justice Centre Services at Recharge your batteries in the middle of the the Central Library day with this essential practice for mental Learning and Support Group for Adult Ongoing-Apr 13, Mondays, 5-7 pm, hygiene. Research shows that it can improve Survivors of Child Abuse Wednesdays, 5-8:45 pm the immune system, increase energy levels Dec. 7, 28, Jan. 11, 25, Feb. 8, 22 Community Legal Services provides free legal and help to gain greater emotional stability. Saturdays, 10-12 pm advice and representation to members of the No experience necessary. You are not alone. Child abuse thrives on community who qualify for their services. fear, secrecy and shame. Adult survivors of Western Law students advocate for clients Socrates Cafe child abuse are welcome to attend this free under the supervision of experienced lawyers Ongoing, last Mon/month, 7-9 pm learning and support group. Survivors will in the areas of criminal, landlord and tenant, An open forum in the informal environment of learn that the secrecy and shame belong to small claims, and consumer protection law. the Library’s Cafe for everyone who enjoys the perpetrators. Join us to learn, laugh and The Small Claims Court Project helps people listening, thinking and talking about life’s big help each other heal. Please note these are with drafting Small Claims Court forms. Law questions. Upcoming Topics: Dec: Do we need not therapy sessions. students and pro bono lawyers will be available to let go of the past and look to the future? Jan: by appointment to help with legal issues and The Internet and digital surveillance: Who is Enter Laughing: Canadian Editorial Art court procedures. The Dispute Resolution watching us? Feb: Is humanity approaching from the Victorian Age Centre offers free mediation services to help a new start? Dec. 9, Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm parties resolve conflicts using a process that In 1849 Montreal a young Protestant Irish is fast, convenient and confidential. Help is French Conversation Circles immigrant sat down at a wooden carving easel provided in finding solutions in disputes about Ongoing, Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm and drew what would become the first editorial small claims, co-op housing, car repair, noise To register contact Speciose Mukakamanzi cartoon published in this country. The efforts and more. For more information or to book an by email at Speciose.Mukakamanzi@ of John Henry Walker spawned a whole new appointment call 519-661-3352. collegeboreal.ca, or by phone at 519- journalistic industry. The cartoon has stayed 451-5194, or Surya Acharya by email at with us for many a decade. Come have a Backgammon for Everyone [email protected], or by phone at 226- chuckle as we take a look at editorial cartoons Ongoing, Thursdays, 3-9 pm 700-2226. No classes Dec. 24 & 31. from our past. A co-sponsored program with The Forest City Backgammon Club invites Are you learning French and want to practice the Faculty of Information & Media Studies, players of all ages, whether you’re a rank your skills? Already speak French but it’s Western University. beginner or current champion, to enjoy getting rusty? Come practice with us and backgammon on the 3rd floor of the library enhance your confidence in speaking French! on. Contact Derek Orton for details at [email protected]. Empowering You to Take Control of Your Money: Part Seven, Long Term Care Literacy and Basic Skills Program Costs Ongoing, Thursdays, 5:30-9 pm Dec. 3, Wednesday, 6:30-8 pm Register with Irene at Literacy London, Register starting Nov. 3. 519-452-2660 x69712 With guest speaker Heather Taylor, RN, owner No class Dec. 25 & Jan 1. of Lil Peace of Heaven. Hosted by Terry R. A part-time, one-to-one, small group adult Baker & Linda Coutts, Consultants, Investors literacy program offered by Literacy London. Group.
Knitters Helping Knitters Ongoing, Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 am Get together with other knitters to share knitting interests. Drop in.
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London Jazz Orchestra Writer-in-Residence Gary Barwin: The Music Cure: Reflections Dec. 11, Thursday, 7:30-9 pm Office Hours on Music and Dementia The London Jazz Orchestra performs popular Jan 6-Apr 8, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 4-7 pm Jan. 13, Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm selections of big band, swing and jazz music. Make an appointment by calling 519-661- Recent books such as Oliver Sacks’s Enjoy their stylings of favourite standards, as 4600 or emailing [email protected]. Musicophilia and documentaries such as well as new and exciting arrangements. Ralph Gary Barwin is available to meet with writers Alive Inside have raised popular awareness de Luca directs the 18 piece stage band in its at all levels to provide individual consultation of the effect of music on the brain in cases 27th anniversary season. and feedback. Office hours are Tuesdays and of memory loss due to dementia. But what Wednesdays at both Western University and does this evidence mean for individuals Classes Without Quizzes the Central Library. Gary is a writer, composer, and institutions providing long-term care for Cultivating Leadership in Girls and multimedia artist, and educator and the author those with cognitive impairments? In this Young Women of seventeen books of poetry and fiction as presentation, Grant Campbell draws on his Dec. 11, Thursday, 6:30-9 pm well as books for both teens and children. His research in classification and dementia, Doors open at 6:30 pm. work has been widely performed, broadcast, together with his experiences providing music To register or find out more information visit anthologized and published nationally and in dementia wards and nursing homes, to classeswithoutquizzes.uwo.ca, call 519-661- internationally. His latest book is Moon reflect on the potential and the limitations of 2111 x88254 or email [email protected]. Baboon Canoe (poetry, Mansfield Press, music as a means of alleviating the suffering Some argue that leaders are born with a 2014) and he has just completed a novel, caused by dementia. A co-sponsored program set of innate traits and qualities that destine Yiddish for Pirates (Random House, 2016). with the Faculty of Information & Media one for leasdership. Join Brescia Universtity You can submit work to Gary in advance by Studies, Western University. College Principal Colleen Hanycz to learn emailing him at [email protected]. how leadership skills can in fact be acquired Submissions need to be a maximum length Classes Without Quizzes or learned, with a specific focus on girls and of 5 pages for poetry and 15 pages for prose. Sitting: How Can Something That Feels young women So Good Be So Bad? Nature in the City Jan. 15, Thursday, 6:30-9 pm Cinema Politica Film Series Jan. 13-Feb. 17, Tuesdays, 7-8:30 pm Doors open at 6:30 pm. Dec. 15, Jan. 12, Feb. 9, Mondays, 7-9 pm Jan. 13: Urban Deer: co-existing with To register or find out more information visit Join us for a monthly film series of thought- Bambi, with Kyle Stanley, Ministry of Natural classeswithoutquizzes.uwo.ca, call 519-661- provoking and timely documentaries. Cinema Resources; Jan. 20: Monarchs in Peril: Why 2111 x88254 or email [email protected]. Politica is a media arts, non-profit network of are they disappearing? with Bruce Parker, Studies indicate adults spend most of their community and campus locals that screens Citizen Scientist and Monarch Tagger; waking time being sedentary, which has independent political film and video by Jan. 27: Restoring Nature: A helping hand been associated with an increased risk of Canadian and international artists throughout for beleaguered Ecosystems with Mhairi health problems. Kinesiology professor Harry Canada and abroad. Dec. 15: The Big Sellout; McFarlane, Nature Conservancy of Canada; Prapavessis, Director of Western’s Exercise Jan. 12: Silence is Gold; Feb. 9: Visions of Feb. 3: Winterized Insects: Lessons in and Health Psychology Lab will examine the Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Coping with Cold, with Brent Sinclair, reasons we are so sedentary, why sedentary Way of Life. Western University Biology Department; behaviour is bad for you and how we can sit Feb. 10: Celebration of Bats, The Current less and move more. Jazz for the People News, with Brock Fenton, Bat Ambassador Dec. 17, Wednesday, 7:15-8:45 pm and Researcher; Feb. 17: Medway Valley A free concert series featuring local and Heritage Forest, with Greg Thorn, Western regional jazz musicians. Supported by Friends University. A six-part series of illustrated of the London Public Library. talks on nature within the City of London.
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Grit Uplifted Creative Writing Group Jan. 17-Apr. 18, Saturdays, 2-4 pm Change a child’s life! The London InterCommunity Health Centre, in partnership with London Public Library, offers an open forum for learning, self-expression, and the building of trust and community for people who are homeless, at risk of being homeless, or who have experienced homelessness. Through weekly group sessions, participants will be provided with organized support for creative expression and skill development in a welcoming and respectful environment of positive social engagement and fellowship. There are also opportunities for self-reflection and the enhancement of one’s sense of self- worth. Drop In.
Doctored (documentary) Feed Your Intellect Film Series November 8 to Jan. 21, Wednesday, 6:30 pm December 20 Your food, your medicine and your healthcare have all been doctored. Doctored exposes Donate new children’s books for all ages - babies to teens. Drop the unseen tactics of the American Medical Association (AMA) and reveals an alarming off at any London Public Library location. portrait of deception and criminality. Natural Give a financial donation in person or online - Library Staff will strategies, especially chiropractic, are buy the books for you! deliberately pushed to the sidelines, often to the detriment of patients. Purchase books yourself - receive a 20% discount at participating book stores in London. Jazz for the People Jan. 28, Wednesday, 7:15-8:45 pm For more information call: 519-661-5100 x7422 or 519-661-5100 x5850 A free concert series featuring local and www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/abookforeverychild regional jazz musicians. Supported by Friends of the London Public Library. 23 years of giving books to children! Investment Essentials Jan. 31, Saturday, 2-3:30pm Register starting Jan. 3. Investing can be a confusing and daunting exercise but, with a little coaching and some time, you can gain some clarity. This relaxed seminar provides an interactive opportunity to learn about investing including an introduction Crime and Punishment: A Journey Me, Worry? Understanding and to the different types of investments, taxes Through the Criminal Justice Combatting Anxiety the investments incur and fees you may be System in Ontario Finding Your Way 2015 charged, as well as discussing reasons to Finding Your Way 2015 Feb. 7, Saturday, 10:15 am invest and the risks involved. Presented by Feb. 7, Saturday, 11:15 am Anxiety is among the most common Christopher Meyler, Financial Advisor. Interested in taking a tour of our correctional psychological disturbances, with an estimated and forensic mental health systems? Want to one in four people developing an anxiety Close Relationships and Mental Health know the differences between jails, prisons, disorder in their lifetime. Join us for an Finding Your Way 2015 and forensic psychiatric hospitals? This overview of anxiety disorders, emphasizing Feb. 7, Saturday, 12:15 pm presentation discusses how these systems models of anxiety and how we can cope. An informative look at ways in which common work, which individuals are placed in each components of your relationship influence the system, and how we rehabilitate individuals present and future mental health of you and who have committed a crime. your partner.
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Mind-Body Connection Digital Systems and Human Traces: Till the Cows Come Home (documentary) Finding Your Way 2015 Uncovering the People Behind Our Feb. 11, Wednesday, 6:30 pm Feb. 7, Saturday, 2:15 pm Platforms In the summer of 2010 the closing of the Learn about how your emotions and stress Feb. 10, Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm Frontenac Prison Farm in Kingston, Ontario affect your physical health. This is a discussion There is little doubt that the advent of internet ignited a passionate debate about food about practices and strategies to help keep and social media technologies has changed security, prison reform and social justice. Til the mind and body healthy. our interactions and relationships with, and the Cows Come Home follows the struggle expectations of, our everyday technologies. to save the farm and asks uncomfortable Nature AND Nurture: The Interplay Often we carry our social media platforms in questions about the nature of democracy in Between Biology and Environment our back pockets on mobile technology in a Canada. in Depression closeness that suggests intimacy: a one-to- Finding Your Way 2015 one relationship between us, to our platforms, London Jazz Orchestra Feb. 7, Saturday, 1:15 pm to the world. Yet, is the story this simple? In Feb. 12, Thursday, 7:30-9:00 pm Join us for a discussion on the biological this talk, we will discuss the host of politics The London Jazz Orchestra performs popular and environmental factors involved in mood and people behind the scenes that suggest a selections of big band, swing and jazz music. regulation. Both risks and protective factors much more complex world where the stakes Enjoy their stylings of favourite standards as for depression will be discussed, with an may be much higher, and much less fun, well as new and exciting arrangements. Ralph emphasis on factors reducing risk. than we are led to believe. A co-sponsored de Luca directs the 18 piece stage band in its program with the Faculty of Information & 27th anniversary season. Media Studies, Western University.
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The Two Phases of Retirement Planning Classes Without Quizzes Estate Planning: Because You Can’t Take Feb. 14, Saturday, 2-3:30pm Media’s Role in the Dehumanization of It With You Register starting Jan . 16. Immigrants and Refugees Feb. 28, Saturday, 2-3:30 pm Retirement planning consists of both Feb. 23, Monday, 6:30-9 pm Register starting Jan. 30. accumulating wealth over your working Doors open at 6:30 pm. There are two certainties in life: death and career and distributing that wealth over your To register or find out more information visit taxes. There are steps you can take to retirement. The two dangers of retirement classeswithoutquizzes.uwo.ca, call 519-661- properly prepare your estate, ensuring that planning are not saving enough to retire 2111 x88254 or email [email protected]. your legacy remains with your family and when you want (or at all) and, once retired, of Immigration policies and the treatment of not the tax collector. This workshop will give outliving your savings. This workshop explores immigrants and refugees are contentious information on how to put your estate in order, strategies to help you financially prepare for issues involving uncertainty and unease. Join to lessen your family’s burden and give you retirement, and offers suggestions to make Psychology professor Victoria Esses, Director peace of mind. Presented by Christopher your savings last the rest of your life. Presented of Western’s Centre for Research on Migration Meyler, Financial Advisor. by Christopher Meyler, Financial Advisor. and Ethnic Relations, as she discusses the effects of common media portrayals of Heritage Fair 2015: Honouring Our Veterans immigrants and refugees, on dehumanization | Cherryhill Feb. 21, Saturday, 9:15 am-3 pm and its consequences. 301 Oxford St. W. Interested in London’s war experience? Prof. 519-439-6456 Jonathan Vance gives a talk: “A Century Ago: Jazz for the People The First World War Comes to London”. Don Feb. 25, Wednesday, 7:15-8:45 pm Menard looks at the City of London’s Streets of A free concert series featuring local and | Children Honour program (10.30 am); Michael O’Leary regional jazz musicians. Supported by Friends discusses Researching Military Medals (11.00 of the London Public Library. You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and am); Maya Hirschmann highlights the Secrets Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. of Radar Museum (11.45 am); and David Hall Starting Your Own Home Child Care talks on the war dead of Brick Street Cemetery Business Cherryhill Community Playgroup (12.15 pm). Later, in the Stevenson & Hunt Feb. 25, Wednesday, 1:30-3:30pm (birth-6 yrs with caregiver) Room, Richard Holt discusses Researching Register starting Jan 28. Ongoing, Fridays, 9:30-11:30 am Military Records (1.30 pm) and Mark Join us for a free seminar on starting a home Parents, caregivers and children participate Richardson will provide hands-on access to child care business. The session will cover in interactive early learning activities. Offered records of Londoners who died in WWI and what home child care is and the regulations with Ontario Early Years Centre, London WWII, courtesy of the Library & Archives involved in home child care. Other topics North-Centre. For information call 519-434- Canada’s Lest We Forget program (2.15 pm). include how to organize your home and plan an 3644. Drop in. Over twenty military & heritage associations engaging early learning environment, as well will have staffed exhibits. Co-sponsored by as information on liability issues, establishing Lego Creation Station London Public Library and London Heritage contracts with families and expert advice (4-12 yrs with caregiver) Council. on child-proofing, scheduling and planning. Ongoing, Last Sat/month, 2:30-3:30 pm Presented by London Children’s Connection. We provide the LEGO, you provide the FINDING YOUR WAY 2015 imagination. Core Beliefs: The Filters Through Which The Ghosts in Our Machine (documentary) We Experience the World Feed Your Intellect Film Series Winter Fun Craft! (5+ yrs) Feb. 21, Saturday, 9:15 am Feb. 26, Thursday, 6:30 pm Dec. 6, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Core beliefs are our deeply held beliefs about This film illuminates the lives of animals Join us as we create a fun wintery craft that ourselves, others and the world. Learn about living within, and rescued from, the machine will warm your heart! the ways that these beliefs influence our of our modern world. Through the heart and actions, relationships and experiences for lens of animal rights photojournalist Jo-Anne I’m Home (10-12 yrs) better or worse. McArthur, audiences become intimately Dec. 13, Saturday, 9:30 am-2:30 pm Everyday Practices to Protect and familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Register starting Nov. 1. Cost: $35. Improve Cognition Parent must attend 11:30 am-2:30 pm. A program designed to support parents in Feb. 21, Saturday, 10:15 pm 13th Annual Black History Month preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to The brain is no longer believed to be hardwired, Closing Gala and Reception move successfully to safe, home-based self but instead has the capacity to adapt with Feb. 28, Saturday, 4-7 pm care. Parent attendance is required for part experience and in response to change. Learn Join us for dance, song, spoken word, history of the program. Financial assistance may about the everyday practices and lifestyle and more. Reception follows. Presented in be available, please inquire at registration. choices that promote brain health, including partnership with the London Black History Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. those thought to protect cognitive functioning Coordinating Committee. Tickets: Adults: $12; Lunch break for Saturday sessions is in aging. Children under 12: $6. Doors open at 3 pm. 11:30 am-12:30 pm. www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/15 • PAGE 25 | cherryhill
Christmas Craft (Family) Francophone Seniors’ Group Ageless Grace: Timeless Fitness for Dec. 20, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Ongoing, Fridays, 1-3 pm Body and Mind Come create a Christmas craft. Drop in any Contact Isabelle for more information, 519- Jan. 13-May 12, 2nd Tues/month, 1-2 pm time during the day while supplies last. 660-0875 x312. Class is limited to the first 20 participants. Feel like you haven’t spoken French in a Ageless Grace is a cutting edge brain fitness Make Your Own Button (7+ yrs) long time? You’re not the only one! Do you program based on neuroplasticity that activates Jan. 3, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm miss your senior counterparts? Join our all functions of the brain. During this sitting Use our button-making machine to design group. We focus on educational and health exercise program, participants will discover and create your own buttons, to wear on information sessions, sharing experiences, the five functions of the brain: analytical, your backpack, your coat, or to give away to making new friends and having fun in French! strategic, kinesthetic learning, memory/recall, a friend! Co-sponsored with London InterCommunity creativity, and imagination. Class is limited to Health Centre. the first 20 participants, arrive early to sign up Shaping and Patterning Art Workshop and avoid disappointment. Co-sponsored by (9-12 yrs) Laughter Yoga Minto Cherryhill. Jan. 16, Saturday, 2-4pm Ongoing, 3rd Thurs/month, 11am-12pm Register starting Jan. 2. March 19 is changed to March 26. Writer-in-Residence Gary Barwin: Writing Edith Coulaud, a visual arts teacher from Laughter yoga is a way we can connect with Past, Present and Future (50+) Paris, France, is offering this special workshop our inner child. It is not yoga as you know Jan. 14, Wednesday, 1:30-3:30 pm exploring space, scale and colour through it: no different clothing is worn, no difficult Register starting Nov. 1. abstract patterning and drawing. Participants poses. We laugh and enjoy the release Join Gary Barwin for a writing workshop for will create individual pieces and build a laughter brings with it. You will clap, stretch, older adults. Through a series of enjoyable collective work of art together. Materials either standing or sitting, and laugh. This is writing activities we’ll explore a range of supplied. a program created by a doctor in India who techniques for creating vivid and powerful knows the benefits of laughter. Yes, we are writing from memories, observations, Family Karaoke Party healthier when we do the exercise of laughing! descriptions, opinions and the imagination. Feb. 14, Saturday, 2-4 pm Express yourself with music! Pick a song to Exercise with Style (55+) Prenatal Classes sing solo, with your family and friends, or sing Ongoing, Fridays, 10-11 am Jan. 15-Feb. 19, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm a Valentine’s love song. Creative flair in movement for older adults. Register online with Middlesex-London End your week on a natural high by joining Health Unit. Cost: $10. the VON for these classes. Presented in www.healthunit.com/prenatalhealth | Teens partnership with Cherryhill Healthy Aging. Meet other families and learn about pregnancy, coping through labour and birth, Teen Tuesdays @ Cherryhill (11+ yrs) Mixed Media Painters physical and emotional changes after birth, Ongoing, 2nd Tues/month, 7:30-8:30 pm Ongoing, 1st & 3rd Tues/month, 1:30-4:30 pm infant feeding, infant safety, and how to care Join us for games, activities, book discussions Painters of any media and experience come for your new baby. Register early in your and crafts. Who knew Tuesday nights could together to paint. Bring your own materials. pregnancy, classes fill quickly. More class be so much fun? All ages welcome. times and locations are listed on the MLHU website. Fee can be waived. Co-sponsor: Stitch ‘n Time Middlesex-London Health Unit. | General Ongoing, 1st & 3rd Wed/month, 9:30-11:30 am Bring your needlework, knitting, crocheting Watercolour Painting: Volunteer Tech Tutor or other handwork for a morning of sharing. Intermediate/Advanced Ongoing, Tuesdays, 10 am-12 pm and Learn tips, patterns and skills from each other. Jan. 16-Mar. 6, Fridays, 1-3:30 pm 4-6 pm; Wednesdays, 10 am-12 pm; and Bring your own materials. Register starting Jan. 2. Cost: $60, due at Saturdays, 10 am-12 pm registration. A volunteer Tech Tutor is available to assist Tea Talk and Matinee 2014-2015 Helen Bruzas will share her enthusiasm you with questions about Word, Excel, See page 40 for list of plays, dates and and knowledge in teaching this class PowerPoint, email or computer basics. information on purchasing tickets. for intermediate to advanced painters. Participants bring their own supplies. Fee is Cherryhill Book Club non-refundable unless course is cancelled. Ongoing, 2nd Wed/month, 7-8:30 pm Cost of materials not included in course fee. Join a lively, informal discussion every month. Call the branch for upcoming titles. Books are available at the meeting. New members welcome.
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Beginner Drawing Course | Crouch Snowflakes and Icicles: Winter Jan. 20-Mar. 10, Tuesdays, 1-2:30 pm 550 Hamilton Rd. Drop-by Craft (5-12 yrs) Register starting Jan. 6. Cost: $45, due at 519- 673 - 0111 Dec. 23, Tuesday, Library hours registration. Come by to create spectacular snowflakes. Join us for this beginner drawing course. Learn about materials such as powdered graphite | Children Plush Penguin Pals (5-12) and water-base pencils, vine charcoal and Dec. 27, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm more. We will not be drawing landscapes, It’s chilly outside. Come in out of the cold and You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and however you will learn enough drawing skillls create a cute fuzzy penguin that will warm your Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. to create landscapes on your own. Participants heart. do not need to bring supplies to first class as Saturday Cinema (Family) they will be provided. Fee is non-refundable Hats and Horns Hooray! (5-12 yrs) Ongoing-June 6, 1st Sat/month, 2:30 pm . Dec. 30, Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 pm Comedy, action and adventure. We have it all! Problem Solving Group for Seniors (65+) Are you ready to ring in the New Year? Come Bring your friends and family for fun feature Jan. 21-June 3, 1st & 3rd Wed/month, create fun items that will make your New films on the BIG screen and tasty treats. 1:30-3 pm Year’s Party perfect!! Register starting Jan. 14. Festive Card Creations! (7+ yrs) Interested in meeting new people, learning Whimsical Wish Jars (5-12 yrs) Dec. 2, Tuesday, 6-7 pm about resources in your community, and Jan. 2, Friday, 2:30-3:30 pm Better than Hallmark! Come create fun and enhancing your coping skills? Join our problem 2015 is here! Join us to create a beautiful wish exciting handmade cards to give to friends solving group as we discuss relevant and jar for all your hopes and wishes throughout and family this holiday season! timely topics such as living on a budget and the coming year. more. A new topic will be discussed at each Crouch Homework Club (7-12) meeting. Co-sponsored with London Health PA Day Get Your Game On Event! (7+ yrs) Dec. 4, Jan. 15-Mar. 5, Thursdays, Sciences Centre. Jan. 16, Friday, 2-5 pm 3:45-5:45 pm Drop by to dance, drive or rock out! We will Homework help is here! If you are having any Tai Chi for Beginners/Intermediates play a variety of games from Just Dance 4 to trouble with your homework, drop in to this free Jan. 21-Mar. 11, Wednesdays, 1-2 pm Mario Kart Wii. Join us for an afternoon of fun. program and get some help from volunteers Register starting Jan. 7 Cost: $45. from Frontier College. Co-sponsored by the An instructor from the Phoenix Tai Chi Centre Family and Friends Puppet Show Library and Frontier College. leads this class suitable for both beginners (all ages with caregiver) and intermediates. Participants will be required Jan. 16, Friday, 10:30-11 am Crouch’s Annual Tree Trimming Party! to sign a waiver to hand in to instructors at Gather around to watch a folk tale come alive! (5-12 yrs) the first class. Fee is non-refundable unless Make your own puppet after the show. All Dec. 13, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm course is cancelled. materials provided. Craft a beautiful ornament for your tree and ours! Join us after to decorate our tree and Thursday Movies Film Fantastique pour les Enfants! have some tasty holiday treats. Jan. 22-Mar. 12, Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm (Family) Join us for movies! For a list of titles, call the Jan. 17 & Feb. 21, Saturdays, 2:30-4 pm Peppermint and Pine Cones: Christmas branch. Comédie, action et aventure! Nous avons de Drop-by Craft (5-12 yrs) tout! Amenez vos amis et votre famille pour Dec. 20, Saturday, Library hours regarder un film sur notre grand écran. Snacks Oh Christmas tree! Oh Christmas tree! Craft fournis. a cute tree of your own to display at home. Love Bugs (5-12 yrs) Feb. 14, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Give everyone you admire a little love bug bite! Create some cute, colourful and silly bug- eyed friends to share this Valentine’s Day.
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| Teens | East London Tea Talk and Matinee 2014-2015 2016 Dundas St. E. See page 40 for list of plays, dates and Musical Mayhem! (10+ yrs) 519-451-7600 information on purchasing tickets. Ongoing, 1st & 3rd Wed/month, 6:30-8 pm Music! Videos! Karaoke! Come out and make Tai Chi mayhem! Jan. 13-Mar. 17, Tuesdays, 7:30-8:15 pm | Children Register starting Nov. 19. Cost: $45. Teen Tuesdays! (10+ yrs) Learn a series of flowing movements that tone Ongoing, 2nd & 4th Tues/month, 6:30 pm You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and muscles, loosen joints, increase circulation, Bring your friends and join us for a variety of Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. improve digestion and reduce stress. activities from gaming, crafts and new movies on the Big Screen. Books & Builders (All Ages) Prenatal Classes Jan. 2, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Feb.12-Mar.25, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Teen Tuesday: Christmas Special (10+ yrs) Build with a variety of cool building toys, Dec. 23, Tuesday, 6-8:30 pm No class March 19. including LEGO. Plus, explore books and Register online with Middlesex-London Get in the Christmas spirit! Our Christmas literacy activities to highlight the best of both special includes National Lampoon, cookies, Health Unit. Cost: $10. worlds! carols and crafting beautiful Polish star www.healthunit.com/prenatalhealth ornaments for your tree. Meet other families and learn about pregnancy, | General coping through labour and birth, physical and emotional changes after birth, infant feeding, | General Housing Support Services infant safety, and how to care for your new Ongoing, Wednesdays, 1-5 pm baby. Register early in your pregnancy, Crouch Library Artists AND Ongoing, 2nd Sat/month, 9 am-1 pm classes fill quickly. More class times and Ongoing, Fridays, 1-4 pm For an appointment call 519-964-3663. locations are listed on the MLHU website. Join our group of independent artists. Bring This service is for low income Londoners who Fee can be waived. Co-sponsor: Middlesex- your own paint and supplies. All levels London Health Unit. welcome. are having housing problems. If you are at risk of homelessness you may be able to get Hamilton Road Gaming Group financial help to stay in your current housing Ongoing, Saturdays, 10 am-5 pm or get new housing. Help may be available | Jalna A free open group promoting tabletop games. for rental arrears, last month’s rent deposit, 1119 Jalna Blvd. Historical, fantasy and sci-fi miniatures, board emergency energy costs and moving costs. 519-685-6465 games and card games. Housing Support Workers can help with applications, give information and refer you Focus on Art at Crouch to community resources. Housing Support | Children Ongoing, Thursdays, 1-4 pm Services at The Salvation Army Centre of Join a group of established artists of mixed Hope administers The Housing Stability Fund. media, and teacher Jacqueline Wojtowich. You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and Everyone welcome. Free introductory session. Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. For more information contact lyardy@rogers. Argyle com. Seniors’ Satellite Christmas Tree Ornaments (5+ yrs) Dec. 6, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Mystery Book Club RECREATION Drop in to make a Christmas tree ornament. Ongoing, 1st Thurs/month, 7-8:30 pm FOR SENIORS Add a little mystery to your life. Join us to Sing Read Play Love (birth-1 yr) discuss great mystery novels. East London Library WED. 11-2 & THURS. 1-4 Dec. 10, Wednesday, 1:30-2:30 pm Register by calling OEYC London West, Crouch’s Annual Holiday Open House Socialize with Others Dec. 17, Wednesday, 6-8 pm 519-473-2825. Cards & Board Games Enjoy an hour of language-based play with Join us for an evening of music, singing and Yoga & Fitness Classes refreshments as we celebrate the Holiday with your baby. We will explore early language those in our Neighbourhood. Social Time development and early literacy through adult Carpet Ball discussion, looking at easy ways to bring Hidden History of Hamilton Road Computer Classes singing, talking and reading into day-to-day presents Thomas Dean Ask library staff about this play. We invite you to bring your baby with Feb. 19, Thursday, 7 pm partnership program with the you to sing, read, play and love. Co-sponsored Join London lawyer Thomas Dean as he looks City of London. Memberships are with the Ontario Early Years Centre, London back at the “good old days” of his youth in the affordable. Financial assistance West. Hamilton Road area. may be available.
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Winter Wonderland Craft (Family) Book a Librarian: eBook Help Ontario Early Years Family Math Jan. 3, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Jan. 10, Saturday, 10 am-12 pm (3-6yrs) Join us to create a wonderful, wintry craft! Would you like to download eBooks or Jan. 9-Feb. 6, Fridays, 10-11 am audiobooks to your tablet, eReader or mobile Register at the branch, by phone or online. PA Day Craft device? Book a one-on-one appointment A five week fun and interactive math program Jan. 16, Friday, 2:30-3:30 pm with library staff for personalized assistance for parents and children. Maximum 2 children Drop in and make a craft to take home. learning to use the downloadable catalogue. per adult. No childcare provided. Spaces You will need to ensure your device is fully limited. Offered with Elgin-Middlesex Ontario Valentine’s Day Craft (Family) charged and your Library Card is active and Early Years Centre. Feb. 14, Saturday, Library hours up-to-date before the appointment. If you have Show someone you care by making a never used your device before, please visit our Minecraft Party! (7+ yrs) Valentine’s craft for someone special! tech tutor to get it set up before booking your Jan.16, Friday, 1:30-3 pm appointment. Come and play Minecraft in the library! Share Jalna Tween Book Club (Grades 6-8) strategies, explore new terrain and create Jan. 7-Feb. 4, Wednesdays, 7-8 pm Prenatal Classes amazing structures together. Play on our Join us for books, activities and snacks! Feb. 5-Mar. 12, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm computers or bring your own. Register online with Middlesex-London Health Unit. Cost: $10. I’m Home (10-12 yrs) | General www.healthunit.com/prenatalhealth Feb.10-24, Tuesdays, 7-8:30 pm Meet other families and learn about pregnancy, Register starting Jan. 10. Cost: $35. Volunteer Tech Tutor coping through labour and birth, physical and Parent must attend the first session from Ongoing-Feb. 27, Saturdays, 12-1 pm emotional changes after birth, infant feeding, 8-8:30 and the last session from 7-8:30. A volunteer Tech Tutor is available to assist you infant safety, and how to care for your new A program designed to support parents in with questions about Word, Excel, PowerPoint, baby. Register early in your pregnancy, preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to email or computer basics. classes fill quickly. More class times and move successfully from supervised before locations are listed on the MLHU website. and after school care to safe, home-based Housing Support Services Fee can be waived. Co-sponsor: Middlesex- self care. Parent attendance is required for Ongoing, 2nd Sat/month 9 am-1 pm London Health Unit. part of the program. Financial assistance may AND Ongoing, Wednesdays, 1-5 pm be available, please inquire at registration. Co- For an appointment call 519-964-3663. sponsor: London Children’s Connection. This service is for low income Londoners who | Lambeth are having housing problems. If you are at 7112 Beattie St. The Book Factory (3-6 yrs with caregiver) risk of homelessness you may be able to get 519-652-2951 Feb.13, Friday, 10-11 am financial help to stay in your current housing Register starting Nov 15. or get new housing. Help may be available You and your child can make a book together! for rental arrears, last month’s rent deposit, | Children Create memories and start a unique book emergency energy costs and moving costs. collection. Offered with Elgin-Middlesex Housing Support Workers can help with You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and Ontario Early Years Centre. applications, give information and refer you Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. to community resources. Housing Support Super Fine Valentines (5-12 yrs) Services at The Salvation Army Centre of Holiday Card Making (7+ yrs) Feb.14, Saturday, 1:30-4 pm Hope administers The Housing Stability Fund. Dec. 6, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm, Love is in the library! Drop by to create a Material fee of $5 due at registration. Super Fine Valentine to give to your someone Coffee and a Card Get ready for the holiday season! Participants special! Dec. 4-Feb. 19, 1st & 3rd Thurs/month, 2:30- will make 2 to 3 seasonal cards and learn the 3:30 pm art of card making. Come enjoy an afternoon out and make a | General simple card that your family and friends will love. Lambeth Library Holiday Open House (Family) Jalna Book Club Dec. 13, Saturday, 2-4pm Dec. 18-Feb. 19, 3rd Wed/month, 7-8 pm Come and welcome in the holiday season with Join a lively, informal book discussion. Book warm cider, music and a craft for the kids too. titles are available one month in advance.
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| Landon | General Poetry London Readings 167 Wortley Rd. Jan. 21 & Feb. 18, Wednesdays, 7:30-8 pm 519-439-6240 Unplugged Saturdays! Poetry London celebrates accomplished local Ongoing, 1st Sat/month, 2:30-3:30 pm poets, and also cooperates with Toronto’s Art | Children The first Saturday of each month we will Bar, The Hamilton Poetry Centre, Ancaster’s unplug the headphones from our Roland Redeemer College, and London’s Fanshawe You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and digital piano so you can share a few pieces. College to provide nationally acclaimed poets Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. Sign up sheet available one week prior. a multi-stop Ontario tour. POETS: Nov. 19: Gillian Sze and Yvonne Blomer; Jan 21: Christmas in the Village ESL Reading Group James Arthur and Jane Munro. February 18: Dec. 6, Saturday, 10 am-3 pm Ongoing, Saturdays, 10:30-11:30 am Sandra Ridley and David Seymour. For more Drop in to celebrate Christmas in the Village! No sessions on holiday weekends. information check www.poetrylondon.ca. Music and activities featured throughout the A place for adults to practice reading and day. Check at the branch for details. speaking in English. Group is led by a Landon Cabaret volunteer. Increase English vocabulary; Feb. 13, Friday, 7:30-9:30 pm Maker Bus Christmas! improve comprehension; practice Tickets: $5. Available at the branch Dec. 6, Saturday, 11 am-12:30 pm pronunciation. We provide free books and starting Jan. 23. Visit the Maker Bus team during Christmas other interesting things to read. A musical and literary evening highlighting in the Village! Come build, create and tinker. some of the finest Old South musicians and Landon Knitting Circle writers. An evening not to be missed! Winter Holiday Crafts (Family) Ongoing, Thursdays, 1-3 pm Dec. 20, Saturday, 9-4:30 pm Learn to knit; improve your skills; complete a Make a craft to take home. project; help someone else. Share patterns, | Masonville ideas and stories. 30 North Centre Rd. PA Day Movie 519-660-4646 Jan. 16, Friday, 2:30-4:30 pm Home County’s Songwriters Workshop Come in and watch a recently released movie Ongoing, last Sat/month, 1:30-3:30 pm on our big screen! Call the branch to find out These sessions are for songwriters at any | what’s playing. level or for anyone interested in the art and Children craft of songwriting. Bring your instruments Lego Creation Station and your tunes (finished songs or works in You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and (4-12 yrs with caregiver) progress) for open discussion, group writing Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. Jan. 17 & Feb. 21, Saturdays, 2:30-4 pm exercises, song sharing and peer feedback. We provide the LEGO, you provide the Co-sponsored with the Home County Music Chess in the Library (7+ yrs) imagination. & Art Festival. Ongoing-June 12, Fridays, 4-5:30 pm Do you enjoy playing chess, but have no one My First Book Club (7-9 yrs) Landon Book Discussion Group to play against? Members gather each week to Jan. 31 & Feb. 28, Saturdays, 2:30-3:30 pm Ongoing, 2nd Tues/month, 7-8:30 pm play casual, blitz and CFC rated chess games. Register starting Jan. 2. Local writer Jean McKay leads an informative Players of all strengths are welcome to come For children who are reading independently. and lively discussion of literature. and play with volunteers from Chess in the Join us for a book discussion and fun activities. Library, London Chapter. Pick up a copy of the book at the branch. Poetry London Workshop For more information call the branch. Jan. 21 & Feb. 18, Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm Lego Creation Station Please include child’s name and age when Poetry London Workshops are open to anyone (4-12 yrs with caregiver) registering. who enjoys discussing poetry. The workshops Ongoing-Feb. 28, Saturdays, 2-3:30 pm provide an opportunity for participants to take We provide the LEGO, you provide the Valentine’s Day Craft a closer look at the work of that evening’s imagination. (Family) featured poets, and to share their own poetry Feb. 14, Saturday, in a mutually supportive atmosphere. PA Day Movie 9 am-4:30 pm Jan.16, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Show someone you care Come in and watch a recently released movie by making a Valentine’s on our big screen! Call the branch to find out craft for someone what’s playing. special!
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I’m Home (10-12 yrs) SATURDAYS AT MASONVILLE Feb. 12-26, Thursdays, 7-8:30 pm Register starting Jan. 7. Cost: $35. Parents must attend the first session from Winter Open House (all ages) Music in the Afternoon 8-8:30 and the last session from 7-8:30. Dec. 6, Saturday, 1-4 pm Jan. 24 & Feb. 28, Saturdays, 3-4 pm A program designed to support parents in Join us! We are opening our doors to Music students from Western University preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to celebrate the season! There will be button- perform in Centre Space. Come sit, enjoy and delight. Jan. 24: Classical piano and move successfully from supervised before making and book-making centres from 1-4 and after school care to safe, home-based pm, window colouring from 1-3 pm, 3D violin duo; Feb. 28: Contemporary acoustic and soul. No performance in December. self care. Parent attendance is required for printing and scanning with the MakerBus part of the program. Financial assistance may team from 1-3 pm, and the Light of the be available, please ask at registration. Co- East Ensemble will be filling the library Movie Mania at Masonville (family) Jan. 31 & Feb. 28, Saturdays, 2-4 pm sponsor: London Children’s Connection. Non- with music from 2:30-3:15 pm. Drop in and watch a great family film! refundable fee due at registration. Bring your pillow and a friend. Peanut- Winter Movie Mania (Family) free snacks welcome. Call the branch to Dec. 27, Saturday, 2-4pm find out what’s playing. | Teens It’s a costume party AND movie time! Drop in to watch the popular wintery All Ages Gaming Afternoon with Uber Mother/Daughter Teen Book Club (12+ yrs) movie featuring an icy kingdom, and wear Cool Stuff (all ages) Ongoing, 3rd Wed/month, 7-8:30 pm a costume. Will you be a funny snowman? Feb. 7, Saturday, 1:30-4:30 pm No session in December. A princess? A reindeer? Call the branch You’ve never seen board games like this March session changed to March 25. to confirm the movie title. before! Board games have come a long Register both Mother and Daughter. way since Monopoly and Risk. Try out Join us as we read and share our favourite The Wonderful World of Disney some games for children and families, books. Snacks are provided. Call branch to Jan. 3, Saturday, 3-4 pm teens and adults that you may have never find out upcoming book title. Bring the whole family for an hour of heard of, or bring your own for this gaming beloved Disney music at the library! event. We’ll be playing all over the library. Performed live by Rachel Weisdorf in In cooperation with Uber Cool Stuff. Centre Space. Come enjoy all your Disney favourites, and maybe even sing along to Valentine Storytime (Family) a few. Feb. 14, Saturday, 10:30-11:15 am Join us for stories, rhymes and a craft Paper Folding (origami for all ages) about love! Children under 3 must be Jan. 10, 24, Feb. 7, 28, Saturdays, accompanied by an adult. 10:30–11:30 am Drop in to learn the art of paper folding. First Lego League Beginner Robotics (10-14 yrs) Origami paper will be provided. The Paper Feb. 21-Mar.14, Saturdays, 1-3 pm Art Club from Western University invites Registration begins Feb. 4. all skill levels from beginners to advanced. Space is limited. Robots are ready to invade the library! Rubik’s Cube Unplugged (all ages) Offered in partnership with local FRC Jan. 17, Saturday, 2-4 pm Robotics Teams and WE FIRST. You Discover your inner Rubik’s cube skills. will learn how to build and program Local teen Ryan, who will be competing robots using Lego Mindstorms EV3 kits. T1 Empowerment next fall in the Canadian Championships, Participants will be divided into 2 groups to Ongoing, Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 pm will demonstrate his Rubik’s Cube talents, problem-solve as teams and create robots. No meeting Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. bring his Rubik’s Cube collection, and This four-week program is two hours every A safe place for teen girls (aged 12 to 18) share some of his secrets with you that Saturday afternoon and attendance is with type 1 diabetes. Allowing teens to create you can try hands-on with his help! required on all Saturdays. Young people lasting friendships with peers alike, while must be 10 years old by the first day of the discussing issues, concerns and successes program. This is a repeat of the program about life with type 1 diabetes. Sessions focus we ran last summer and is open to new is on positivity and mentorship. Facilitated by participants. Kayla Brown, creator of T1 Diabetes Memes and former president of the Western University Diabetes Association.
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| General Book a Librarian: eBook help Tai Chi Qi Gong: 18 Movements Dec. 4-Feb. 28, Thursdays, 7 pm (Introductory) Volunteer Tech Tutor AND Saturdays 11 am Jan. 14-Feb. 18, Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm Ongoing, Tuesdays, Thursdays Register by calling the branch. Register starting Dec. 10. Cost: $30. & Saturdays, 10 am-noon No session Dec. 18, 25, Jan.1, Feb. 7. Tai Chi Qi Gong is an effective exercise for A volunteer Tech Tutor is available to assist Would you like to download eBooks or health, improving flexibility and posture, you with questions about Word, Excel, audiobooks to your tablet, eReader or mobile strength and balance, and the integration PowerPoint, email or computer basics. device? Book a one-on-one appointment of body and mind. For beginners (except with library staff for personalized assistance pregnant women). Non-refundable fee Masonville Discussion Group learning to use the downloadable catalogue. payable at registration. Ongoing, 1st & 3rd Thurs/month You will need to ensure your device is fully 1:30-2:30 pm charged and your library card is active and Painting with Peter Lam No group on December 18. up-to-date before the appointment. If you have Jan. 15-Mar. 5, Thursdays, 10 am-noon Are you retired and interested in current never used your device before, please visit Register starting Dec. 2. Cost: $70. events and politics? Come meet people and our tech tutor to get it set up before booking London artist Peter Lam provides guidance for discuss the latest events. your appointment. artists of all levels. A list of painting materials will be provided. Non-refundable fee payable Masonville Book Circle Interlude at registration. Ongoing, 2nd Thurs/month, 10:30-11:30 am Dec. 10, Wednesday, 7:30-8:30 pm No meeting in December. Come enjoy an evening filled with music! This Masonville Book Club: Join our discussion of contemporary works concert features London soprano Rachel Prize Books: Which and Why? and ones from past years now renowned. Weisdorf accompanied by Denise Jung on Jan. 20-May 19, 2nd Tues/month, 7-8:30 pm Titles: Nov: February by Lisa Moore; Jan: the piano. You will be treated to a variety of Join our monthly book club for stimulating Longbourn by Jo Baker. Call the branch for music, ranging from art song and opera to discussions about interesting books. Jan 20: February title. Drop in. musical theatre. Drop in. The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal; Feb 17: The Roundhouse by Louise Neighbourhood Drop In: Games, Cards Winter Concert Series Erdrich; Mar 17: We Need New Names by and Knitting Jan. 8, 22 & Feb. 5, Thursdays, 7:30-8:30 pm NoViolet Bulawayo; Apr 21: The Woman Ongoing-June 30, Tuesdays, 2-3:45 pm Warm up your cold winter evenings at Upstairs by Claire Messud; May 19: All My No meeting Dec 23 or 30. Resumes on Jan 6. these intimate, candlelit evenings featuring Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews. Looking for a challenging game of Scrabble, performances by London soprano Rachel or to play Euchre? Maybe you’d just like to do Weisdorf. Thurs. Jan 5: Diva-licious! Be Dealing With Feelings...Anxiety a puzzle or knit with companions and share delighted by this live performance of all (8-12 yrs with parent/caregiver) patterns, ideas and stories? Drop in and join your opera favourites, and perhaps some Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm an activity of your interest. you‘re not familiar with. Bring your boa for Register starting Jan. 2. a diva-filled hour! Thurs. Jan 22: Lullaby Anxiety comes in many forms and for many Thursday Afternoon Movies of Broadway. Love musical theatre? Ms. reasons. Your child may be anxious about Ongoing, 1st & 3rd Thurs/month, Weisdorf performs renditions of Broadway going to school, or have anxieties about 2:15-4:15 pm. No movie Dec. 18. classics and contemporary Broadway musical separation, bullying, not making friends easily, Watch recent films and enduring hits on the big theatre songs. Be wowed while exploring or pleasing the teacher. Anxiety is individual, screen. Your own refreshments are welcome. the world of musical theatre! Thurs. Feb. 5: but all stems from a fear of something. You Call the branch for the movie titles one week Over the Rainbow. Be entertained with jazz and your child can experience and practice an ahead of the showing. Dec 4: A British king favourites and some new pop tunes! Join us to innovative technique that lessens, and often overcomes personal challenges and becomes travel over the rainbow for an hour of smooth fully resolves, those feelings as they arise. an inspiring leader; Dec 18: Take a break from jazz and fun pop! Drop in. And, yes, as a parent, you may experience Christmas movies and watch one of Britain’s anxieties about your child’s experiences at funniest actors go on holiday; Jan 8: Joining Tai Chi Qi Gong: 18 Movements school. Learn Emotional Freedom Technique a national football team has always been this (Intermediate) (EFT), a self-administered practice, to lessen young man’s dream; Jan 22: Considered one Jan. 14-Feb. 18, Wednesdays, 7:45-8:45 pm anxieties. Child and parent should attend all of the greatest love stories of all time, we’re Register starting Dec. 10. Cost: $30. three sessions. getting you ready for Valentine’s Day early Tai Chi Qi Gong is an effective exercise for with this film based on a British novel; Feb 5: health, improving flexibility and posture, Set in Italy, this film features beautiful scenery strength and balance, and the integration of as a woman sets out on a new path for her life; body and mind. For people who have taken Feb 19: This caped crusader fights the forces the Introductory course (except pregnant that threaten a city. Drop in. women). Non-refundable fee payable at registration.
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| Pond Mills | General Lego Creation Station 1166 Commissioners Rd. E. (4-12 with caregiver) 519-685-1333 Housing Support Services Dec. 6-Mar. 7, 1st Sat/month, 2:30-3:30 pm Ongoing, Tuesdays, 1-5 pm We provide the LEGO, you provide the For an appointment call 519-964-3663. imagination. | Children This service is for low income Londoners who are having housing problems. If you are at Snowman Craft Time (7-13 yrs) risk of homelessness you may be able to get Dec. 13, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and financial help to stay in your current housing Register starting Dec. 3. Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. or get new housing. Help may be available Come in out of the cold and make fantastic for rental arrears, last month’s rent deposit, snowman crafts. Dress for a mess since we Christmas Family Movie emergency energy costs and moving costs. will be painting, among other things! Dec. 27, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm Housing Support Workers can help with Celebrate the holidays by watching a favourite applications, give information and refer you Captain Underpants: Christmas family movie on our big screen! to community resources. Housing Support Lots-o-Laffs at the Library Services at The Salvation Army Centre of Jan. 16, Friday, 2:30-3:30 pm Board Game Extravaganza (7-12 yrs) Hope administers The Housing Stability Fund. Register starting Jan. 7. Jan. 14, Wednesday, 7-8:30 pm Help us win a framed pair of underpants signed Drop in to have some fun playing a variety of by Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey! All board games. | Sherwood we need to do is have the most awesome 1225 Wonderland Rd. N. Captain Underpants library event ever! We’ll PA Day Movie 519-473-9965 toss undies into the Turbo Toilet 2000, decorate Jan. 16, Friday, 2:30-4 pm our own pairs of briefs, find our new Captain Come in and watch a recently released movie Underpants names with Professor Poopypants’ on our big screen! Call the branch to find out Name Changer, and more. Join us for action, what’s playing. | Children thrills, laffs, and romance (just kidding).
Valentine’s Day Craft (Family) You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and We Love Birds! (7-13 yrs) Feb. 14, Saturday, 10 am-noon Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. Feb. 21, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm Show someone you care by making a Register starting Feb. 7. Valentine’s craft for someone special. After-School Tutoring Make a special treat for the birds and a special (Students Grades 1-12) craft for yourself! We will be working with a Lego Creation Station Ongoing, Thursdays, 5-8 pm mixed birdseed that may contain nuts. (4-12 yrs with caregiver) No session Dec. 25, Jan. 1 or Mar. 19. Feb. 24, Tuesday, 7-8:30 pm This program is designed to help students We provide the LEGO, you provide the from Newcomer communities who are having imagination. difficulty completing their homework. Help available in all subjects in English and/or French. For more information, call 519-902- 5108 or email [email protected]. Spaces are limited – maximum of 3 students per volunteer. Co-sponsored with LSP and NWLRC.
Computer Gaming (8+ yrs) Ongoing, Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm Use our laptop lab to play computer games on your own or with your friends. A fun hour to chat, play, and enjoy!
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I’m Home (10-12 yrs) Women of the World Sherwood Book Club Feb. 28, Saturday, 9:30 am-2:30 pm Ongoing-Feb 21, 1st & 3rd Sat/month, 10-noon Ongoing, 1st Tues/month, 2:15-3:15 pm Register starting Jan. 24. Cost: $35. Register by calling 519-902-5108 or Join a lively, informal book discussion every Parent must attend 11:30 am-2:30 pm. emailing [email protected]. month. Call the branch for more information. A program designed to support parents in Women of the World is a program where you preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to can meet and connect with other women; Chase Your Chills Away Open House move successfully to safe, home-based self share and learn from the experiences of other @ Sherwood care. Parent attendance is required for part immigrant women; learn about issues that are Dec. 10, Wednesday, 2-4 pm of the program. Financial assistance may important to your health and the health of your Join us for a fun afternoon of crafts, be available, please inquire at registration. family; get information about services in the refreshments and music with Duo di Gala. Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. city; make friends and have fun! Daycare is Lunch break for Saturday sessions is 11:30 provided. Co-sponsored with LSP and London Prenatal Classes am-12:30 pm. InterCommunity Health Centre. Jan. 7-Feb. 18, Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm No class Feb. 11. Celebrating Seniors Series Register online with Middlesex-London | General Ongoing, 2nd Wed/month, 2-3 pm Health Unit. Cost: $10. Join us each month for an activity or speaker. www.healthunit.com/prenatalhealth Volunteer Tech Tutor Drop in. Bring a friend! Planned with the Meet other families and learn about Ongoing, Tuesdays, 10 am-noon Medway Seniors Group. December 10: pregnancy, coping through labour and birth, A volunteer Tech Tutor is available to assist Music by Duo di Gala, refreshments and card physical and emotional changes after birth, you with questions about Word, Excel, making. Ask staff about future topics. infant feeding, infant safety, and how to care PowerPoint, email or computer basics. for your new baby. Register early in your Itch to Stitch Club pregnancy, classes fill quickly. More class Well Baby/Child & Breastfeeding Clinics Ongoing-Feb. 26, Thursdays, 1-3 pm times and locations are listed on the MLHU Ongoing-Feb 25, Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 No session Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. website. Fee can be waived. Co-sponsor: am Bring your current project: knitting, crocheting, Middlesex-London Health Unit. No clinic on Dec. 24 or 31. looming, rug hooking. Get help from other Meet other young families in a relaxed stitchers or learn how to stitch. No experience Sports Across Cultures setting. Talk to a public health nurse about necessary. $2 weekly donation goes towards Jan. 24 & Feb. 14, Saturdays, 10-11:30 am breastfeeding, growth and development, our supply of needles, yarns and looms. Register by calling Jyoti Ghimire at the early literacy, nutrition, safety and community Cosponsor: Alice Saddy Association. Drop in. CCLC, 519-432-1133 x363. support for ages 0 to 4 years. In partnership Join us on Saturday mornings for physical with Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU). activity and information on how to keep your family happy, healthy and moving during the winter months. These information sessions on physical literacy (basic movement skills for you and your family) are accompanied by Your Virtual Library a fun family activity. Nov. 22: yoga; Jan. 24: fitness; Feb. 14: zumba. In partnership with CCLC. language lessons for your next trip Educational Opportunities for Seniors mango languages 2014 - 2015 Feb. 25, Wednesday, 1:30-3:00 pm Topic: Happiness and Wellness animated story books for family fun Free presentations from community tumblebook library experts, for seniors. Pick up a free copy of the booklet, Educational Opportunities for Seniors 2014-2015, at your local library. For eMagazines to read on the go more information, call Third Age Outreach, St. Joseph’s Health Care, 519-661-1621 or zinio magazines 519-661-1620.
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Stoney Creek Tummy Time For Babies (birth-7 months) Jan. 23-Feb. 27, Fridays, 10-10:30 am Register starting Wed. Jan. 14. Tummy Time is a valuable part of your baby’s daily routine and promotes healthy growth and development. Join us for songs, rhymes, books and play where time on baby’s tummy is the focus. In co-sponsorship with the | Stoney Creek Water Babies: Story & Song Middlesex-London Health Unit, we will enjoy 920 Sunningdale Rd. E. (birth-12 months) fun together each week. Babies and parents 519-930-2065 Jan. 13-Mar. 3, Tuesdays, will find new ways for babies to spend time 1:30-2 pm OR 2-2:30 pm comfortably on their tummies. Toys, mirrors Register starting Jan. 6. and other engaging activities will make this In partnership with the Stoney Creek YMCA, time special. | Children this parent and baby program focuses on sharing baby books, songs, rhymes and Leggo My Lego Family Fun! (Family) baby toys in a safe and soothing warm-pool Jan. 24, and 31st, Saturday, 2-4 pm You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and environment. This program is modelled after Come as a family and have fun together with Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. Books For Babies and adapted for the water; your community, designing and creating all the entire program takes place in the pool. kinds of Lego structures. Lego and Lego books Stoney Creek’s Grandest Storytime Ever! Afterwards parents and babies are welcome to will be provided for your inspiration and fun. (Family) gather for social/play time in the library meeting Dec. 17, Wednesday, 11-11:30 am room. Parents MUST accompany their babies PA Day Building with Lego A grand storytime for grandchildren to come in the pool, with a maximum of one parent with Jan. 30, Saturday, 2-4 pm with their grandparents. Aunts and uncles are one baby. Space is limited. If you are using life Love building things? Spend your afternoon also welcome! Who would you like to bring for jackets for your baby, we recommend that you making creations out of our Lego collection. a special time? Stories, songs and rhymes will bring your own if possible. Drop in for creative family Lego building time! make you smile. Followed by a craft to make together. Eye Tricks: Optical Illusion Fun! (8+ yrs) Stoney Creek ‘Puppy Love’ Dog Tales – Jan. 16, Friday, 11 am-12pm Group Setting! (7-13 yrs) Happy Holiday Storytime (Family) Learn about optical illusions, see and Feb. 14, Saturday, 10-11 am Dec. 19, Friday, 11-11:30 am experience some fun visual tricks, and make Register starting Feb. 3. Join us for holiday stories and festive fun! an “eye-trick” marble spinner craft. On Valentine’s Day join us for some special puppy love and literacy with a storytime Stoney Creek Snowflakes PA Day Movie themed around love. A great way for readers Falling All Around! (Family) Jan. 16, Friday, 2-3:30 pm 7 to 13 to practice reading skills and build Dec. 20, Saturday, 10 am-1 pm Come in and watch a recently released movie confidence. Meet a St. John Ambulance Drop in and create some snowflakes ... no on our big screen! Call the branch to find out Therapy Dog Team, ask questions, listen to snowflake will ever be the same! what’s playing. stories and songs and make a Valentine’s craft. Interested children may also spend Holiday Movie! one-on-one time reading to a dog. All St. Dec. 23, Tuesday, 2-3:30 pm John Ambulance Therapy dogs have been Celebrate the season assessed to read with children. with a classic holiday movie at the library. Holiday Celebrations at the Stoney Creek YMCA, Community Centre and Library Dec. dates to be confirmed. Call branch for details. Enjoy a visit from Santa, songs, storytimes and crafts to celebrate the holiday season. Everyone welcome!
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| Teens The Best of the Best Movie Night Westmount Library at the Family Centre Ongoing, 3rd Thurs/month, 6:30-8:30 pm (birth-6 yrs with caregiver) Stoney Creek Tween Book Club Join us for Stoney Creek’s movie night where Dec. 2-Dec. 30, Tuesdays, 1-3 pm (Grades 6-8) we will uncover the best films from around the The Westmount Librarian visits the Westmount Ongoing-May 16, 3rd Sat/month, 2-3:30 pm world. Come out and change the way you see Family Centre for crafts, play and storytime. Register at the branch. the world. Westmount Family Centre is located at 1019 Join the Stoney Creek Tween Book Club. Viscount Road, attached to Jean Vanier Members will share a love of reading, crafts Introduction to Spanish Elementary School. Drop in. and snacks! Jan. 22-Mar. 12, Thursdays, 7-9 pm Register in person at the YMCA at 920 Mosaic Ornaments (5-12 yrs) Teen Think Tank @ Stoney Creek Sunningdale Rd. East, by phone, 519-667- Dec. 6, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm (Grades 9-12) 4400 or at www.ymcawo.ca. Cost: $71. Register starting Nov. 15. Dec. 11, Thursday and Jan. 28 & Feb. 25, Learn the basics of the Spanish language in Create a beautiful mosaic ornament for the Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm a program that will emphasize conversation holidays! Make it as a gift or hang it on your Register at the branch. over grammar. Verbal and written exercises tree. Come have fun and explore your creativity will be included. A Stoney Creek Community through a multitude of media. Centre, YMCA & Library program. PA Day Movie Jan 16, Friday, 2:30-4 pm Stoney Creek Pause For Paws (13+ yrs) Prenatal Classes Come in and watch a recently released movie Jan. 28, Wednesday, 2-3:30 pm Feb. 17-Mar. 31, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm on our big screen! Call the branch to find out Studying for high school exams? Need a No class March 17. what’s playing. chance to relax, let go of your stress and Register online with Middlesex-London have a break from studying while visiting Health Unit. Cost: $10. Bird Feeder Fun (5 yrs +) with a beautiful dog at the library? This is a www.healthunit.com/prenatalhealth Jan. 17, Saturday, 10:30 am-12 pm program for high school teens. The St. John’s Meet other families and learn about Help care for our feathered friends this winter Ambulance Therapy Dog program will be pregnancy, coping through labour and birth, by making a bird feeder of bagels or cheerios. bringing 1 or 2 dogs to spend time with you! physical and emotional changes after birth, Children under 7 must come with caregiver. Drop in and take a ‘pause for paws”. infant feeding, infant safety, and how to care for your new baby. Register early in your Just Beginning pregnancy, classes fill quickly. More class (Ontario Early Years Centre Series) | General times and locations are listed on the MLHU Jan. 21-Feb. 11, Wednesdays, 10-11:30 am website. Fee can be waived. Co-sponsor: Register by calling the Health Unit, 519-663- Stoney Creek Adult Book Club Middlesex-London Health Unit. 5317 x 2378. Ongoing, 3rd Wed/month, 7:30-8:30 pm Just Beginning is a free 4-week program for Join our monthly book discussion group.New first time moms with a baby 0-6 months of age. members are welcome. Contact Elizabeth or | Westmount Bring your baby to a relaxed and supportive Jacqui at the branch for details. 3200 Wonderland Rd. S. setting and meet other new moms. Talk 519-473-4708 about the ups and downs of motherhood. Stoney Creek Ukulele Jam Discuss infant feeding, safety, sleep, growth Ongoing, 1st Thurs/month, and development, and play. Ask questions 7:30-8:30 pm and learn about community resources. Co- March session will be our free concert | Children sponsored by Ontario Early Years Centres. in the lobby of the YMCA. Come check us out. You’ll find Books for Babies, Storytimes and Frozen Party! (3+ yrs with caregiver) You can learn a few chords and start Family Storytimes listed on pages 12 and 13. Jan. 31, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm playing songs at these fun and informal Love the movie Frozen? Join us for this jam sessions. For first-time players Westmount Community Playgroup special frozen-themed event with games, and those with more experience. (birth-6 yrs with caregiver) crafts and a sing-a-long! Bring your own ukulele (and Ongoing, Thursdays, 9:45-10:45 am music stand if you have one) OR 11 am-noon Build and Decorate a Miniature House! or just come to see if this might No playgroup Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. (5-10 yrs with caregiver) be the right instrument for you. Parents, caregivers and children participate Feb. 7, Saturday, 2:30-4 pm Some spares are available. in interactive, early learning activities. Offered Register starting Jan. 17. Beginners, please come at with Ontario Early Years Centre London West. Build a miniature house out of cardboard then 7 pm for tuning and basic For information call OEYC, 519-473-2825. decorate it together with various art supplies. chord instruction. Spectators If you choose to use paint, please dress for welcome too! a mess!
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Super Fine Valentines (5-12 yrs) | General TED Talks at Westmount: Ideas Worth Feb. 14, Saturday, 11 am-12 pm Spreading Love is in the library! Drop by to create a Super Feedback Fridays Ongoing, 3rd Wed/month, 7-8 pm Fine Valentine to give to your someone special! Ongoing, 4th Fri/ month, 2-3 pm Drop in to view inspiring online presentations What types of programs would you like to see by experts covering a wide range of topics. I’m Home (10-12 yrs) at the library? Drop in over some coffee and Feb. 21, Saturday, 9:30-2:30 pm conversation to share some future program Ancestry Library.com Register starting Feb. 1. Cost: $35. ideas with us. Ongoing, 1st Sat/month, 2-3 pm Parent must attend 11:30 am-2:30 pm. Join us for a demonstration of the library A program designed to support parents in DVD/Video/CD Swap database: Ancestry Library Edition. There preparing their 10 to 12 year old child to Ongoing, 4th Sat./month, 12-4 pm will be plenty of time in the afternoon, and move successfully to safe, home-based self Come trade DVDs, videos or CDs. available computers, to allow you to do some care. Parent attendance is required for part searching for yourself. of the program. Financial assistance may Geocaching at Westmount be available, please inquire at registration. Ongoing, 3rd Sat/month, 9-10am Arabic/English Conversation Circle Co-sponsor: London Children’s Connection. Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting Ongoing, 2rd & 4th Thurs/month, 7-8 pm Lunch break for Saturday session is 11:30 game where participants use a GPS receiver, Whether you speak Arabic or English, or wish am-12:30 pm. or other navigational techniques, to hide to speak both, join our conversation circle and seek containers (called geocaches or every other week to learn new words, phrases Leggo My Lego Family Fun! (Family) caches). Over 480,000 geocaches, in over and conversation skills. Everyone is welcome. Feb. 28, Saturday, 10:30 am-12 pm 100 countries, are registered on various Come as a family and have fun together with websites devoted to this sport. Westmount’s Book a Librarian - eBook Help your community, designing and creating all co-ordinates: N 42° 55.5’ W 81°16.542’ Ongoing, 2rd & 4th Sat/ month, 10-11 am kinds of Lego structures. Lego and Lego books Register at the branch. will be provided for your inspiration and fun. Seniors Theatre Would you like to download eBooks or Ongoing, 3rd Thurs/month, 2:30-4:30pm audiobooks to your tablet, eReader or mobile Enjoy classic films from the 1940s and 50s. device? Book a one-on-one appointment | Teens Call the branch one week prior for movie titles. with library staff for personalized assistance learning to use the downloadable catalogue. Teen Resumes and Job Searching Library Orientation Tours You will need to ensure your device is fully Ongoing, 3rd Fri/month, 3:30-4:30 pm Ongoing, 2nd Sat/month, 11 am-12 noon charged and your library card is active and Need help building your resume or searching Come for a friendly tour to help you find what up-to-date before the appointment. If you have for a job? Learn tips and tricks to build a you’re looking for and see what services are never used your device before, please visit successful resume and learn how to find the available for you or your group. our tech tutor to get it set up before booking right job for you. your appointment.
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Getting Started with Zinio & Press Reader Westmount Friday Morning Book Club Casual Fridays at Westmount Ongoing, 2nd Sat/month, 2:30-3 pm Ongoing, 3rd Fri/month, 10-11 am Jan. 9-Feb. 27, Fridays, 10:30 am-12 pm Learn about Zinio and Press Reader and Join us for a lively discussion of current and Meet up on Friday mornings for coffee, downloading magazines and newspapers. classic fiction and non-fiction titles. Pick up conversation and various activities. Demonstration will be shown on a Kobo Arc. current book at the branch. Computers, Internet and Genealogy Armor Modeling and Preservation Westmount Tuesday Evening Book Club Group Society of Southwestern Ontario Ongoing, 2nd Tues/month, 7-8 pm Jan.14 and Mar. 11, Wednesdays, 7-9 pm Ongoing, 3rd Thurs/month, 7-9 pm Want to chat with other book lovers? Join us Find out how to use the Personal Ancestry The Armor Modeling and Preservation for book discussions. Pick up current book at File program from the Family History Centre Society (AMPS) meets to foster a knowledge the branch. to track your family genealogy. and appreciation of the history of armored vehicles through examination of preserved Housing Support Services Financial Fitness for 2015 examples located in both museums and Ongoing, Wednesdays, 9 am-12 noon Jan. 14, Wednesday, 2-4 pm private collections, and in miniature through For an appointment call 519-964-3663. AND modeling. Newcomers are welcome to attend. This service is for low income Londoners who Jan. 15, Thursday, 7-9 pm are having housing problems. If you are at Register for either session starting Jan. 2. Ontario Genealogical Society risk of homelessness you may be able to get A new year! A new you! If your 2015 Ongoing, 1st Sat/month, 10 am-12 pm financial help to stay in your current housing resolutions include making improvements Everyone is welcome to attend meetings of or get new housing. Help may be available to your financial health, let “Personal Trainer the London & Middlesex County Branch of for rental arrears, last month’s rent deposit, of Finance”, Dan McIntosh, get you on track the Ontario Genealogical Society. emergency energy costs and moving costs. with a plan that helps you define your goals Housing Support Workers can help with and achieve them. Learn how to save more Women of the World applications, give information and refer you money, plan for retirement, get debt under Ongoing, 2nd & 4th Thurs/ month, 5-7 pm to community resources. Housing Support control and more. Women of the World is a program where you Services at The Salvation Army Centre of can meet and connect with other women; Hope administers The Housing Stability Fund. Westmount Craft Exchange share and learn from the experiences of other Jan. 17, May 16, Aug. 15, Saturdays, 2-4 immigrant women; learn about issues that are Tea Talk and Matinee 2014-2015 pm important to your health and the health of your See page 40 for list of plays, dates and Do you have extra craft supplies at home that family; get information about services in the information on purchasing tickets. you don’t need? Come trade and swap with city; make friends and have fun! Daycare is other crafters. We provide the space, you provided. Co-sponsored with LSP and London Educational Opportunities for Seniors make the deals! InterCommunity Health Centre. 2014 - 2015 Dec. 10, Wednesday, 1:30-3 pm Valentines for Veterans Googling Your Family History Topic: Holiday Decorating for Seniors Jan. 22, 23 & 24, all day Ongoing, 1st Wed/ month. 2:30-4 pm Free presentations from community Come and create special valentines for Learn about the special features on Google experts for seniors. Pick up a free copy of veterans living in long-term care facilities that can help you discover your family history. the booklet, Educational Opportunities for across Canada. We will collect the valentines Seniors 2014-2015, at your local library. For and mail them to Veteran’s Affairs Canada so Googling to the Max more information, call Third Age Outreach, they can be distributed by Valentine’s Day. Ongoing, 3rd Sat/month, 10:30 am-12 pm St. Joseph’s Health Care, 519-661-1621 or Learn to get the most out of Google and 519-661-1620. Shim Sham Line Dance discover 25 things about it that you didn’t know. Jan. 29, Thursday, 7-8 pm Westmount Holiday Open House Step back to the 1920s when swing, jazz and Joy of Reading Book Club Dec. 20, Saturday, 2-4 pm big band music ruled the night to learn the Ongoing, 3rd Thurs/month, 7-8 pm Drop by to celebrate the season! Join us for shim sham dance. The shim sham combines Come into the branch anytime to pick up your holiday treats and to watch Irish dancers from hop’n’bop steps and smooth grooves to get copy of the current selection. the Butler-Fearon-O’Connor School of Irish you dancing with style in no time. No partner Dance. or dancing experience required. Knit n’ Stitch Ongoing, Wednesdays, 7-9 pm Looking for time to knit, crochet or stitch? Need some help on your project? Then this group is for you. New members are welcome!
PAGE 38 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/15 Westmount continued Blind Date With a Book Feb. 2-Feb. 14, Daily, Library hours Come to the branch during the two weeks before Valentine’s Day and pick out a book, by reading a description only! Will it be true 10 Things about love or a dud? Books will be gift-wrapped to hide their identity.
Starting Your Own Home Child Care Databases the at Business Feb 5, Wednesday, 1:30-3:30 pm
Register starting Jan 2. Join us for a free seminar on starting a home Library child care business. The session will cover what home child care is and the regulations • What are they? Collections of articles from involved in home child care. Other topics newspapers, magazines, academic journals, include how to organize your home and plan an encyclopedias and directories – there are thousands engaging early learning environment, as well as information on liability issues, establishing of articles that can be searched. contracts with families and expert advice on child-proofing, scheduling and planning. • Free to use with your library card. Presented by London Children’s Connection.
Black History Films • Specialized information – there are whole databases Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, Thursdays, 6:30 pm on topics like health, science, literature, computer Join us as we celebrate Black History Month by technology, small engine repair and car repair. showing films exploring the Black experience in North America. • Geared to School Projects – just the information Heritage Week Quiz needed for those projects regularly assigned to Feb. 14-21, Tuesday to Saturday, 9 am students – i.e. biographies, Canadian literature Do you think you know your Canadian history? Join us this Heritage week to test your trivia skills! Match the correct name to • One great business directory – Reference Canada its corresponding photo to enter our contest. Business Directory lists accurate, up-to-date information on 1.5 million Canadian businesses. The Most Romantic Film of All Time Feb. 14, Saturday, 2-4 pm Starting February 1st, drop in to vote for the • Practice Tests: aptitude, citizenship, LSAT, MCAT, most Romantic Film of All Time. The film with TOEFL, RCMP, Canadian Armed Forces and more. the most votes will be viewed on Saturday, February 8. • Language Lessons in over 50 languages, plus ESL.
• Lots of content for children – including fun, animated talking picture books, magazines and homework help.
• Get a Temporary Virtual Card if you’re accessing online from home and don’t have a card.
Call 519-661-4600 during library hours if you need help. Or come in to a location and ask staff about them.
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SHREK JANUARY 6 – Dec. 10, Wednesday, 11:30 am-4 pm FEBRUARY 28 Register by Dec 3
Reading is SNOW much fun The Ladies Foursome at your Library! Kids can pick Feb. 4, Wednesday up a Book Blizzard challenge 11:30 am-4 pm Register by Jan 28 sheet at any London Public Library starting January 6. Cost: Cozy up and read on a cold $45 for each performance. winter day, or participate in Complimentary buses depart from fun challenges and tell us Byron, Cherryhill, East London and about them. For each book Westmount at 11:30 am for a pre- you read or challenge you performance tea and talk and special complete, put a snowflake up matinee at The Grand Theatre. BALCONY SEATING ONLY for in the Library and help us SHREK. Buses return to those library create a winter wonderland! locations between 3-4 pm. Sponsored by: The Grand Theatre, Grand Wood Park, Voyageur Transportation Services, London Public Library and Friends of the London Public Library.
No refunds unless program is cancelled.
www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2014 • PAGE 40 "I owe a lot to the Library."
The Library was Mustafa’s lifeline while he was learning English. Now he has a job and can support his family.
Watch the video, My Library: Mustafa London Public Library’s YouTube channel. youtube.com/londonpubliclibrary
Your gift enriches lives in our community.
DONATE TODAY: londonpubliclibrary.ca/donate 519-661-5100 x5460
www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/2015 • PAGE 41 | writer-in-residence continued from page 8
Surprisingly, though, learning to be most yourself often involves reading lots of other people.
How do you become an expert sandwich maker? You trust your hunger. You try out many sandwiches.
You think about what tastes best for you and what you would keep and what you would change. You might try out famous sandwich shops and their much-touted sandwiches, trying to fi gure out why people like them, but ultimately, what tastes good to you.
The writing teacher can point you to mindblowingly relevant things to read. And tThey can help you be more perceptive about see your own work betterbecause i. It’s often hard to really clearly see your own writingork. Often you don’t even see notice the typos let alone the conceptual blind spots. A professional chef might say, “Check out how adding rosemary to this recipe brings out the fl avour of the peaches.” You might not have noticed that, or known to think about it,. lLet alone if the recipe was one you’ve made for years. The writing teacher (or cooking instructor) might encourage you to try a tech- nique or ingredient you hadn’t thought to try or to use in that way. Or challenge you to come up with a new recipe or to cheer you on when you do.
My favourite teachers were always enthusiastic and positive and excited about what was going on in my writing but always challenged me to try to see the next step, to see where I might go next. They expanded my imaginative world by pointing me to otht er pathfi nders who had already made the writing world bigger with their explorations (even if that meant exploring with great insight and sensitivity what was right there before them
— think of Alice Munro or Emily Dickinson) and suggested to new paths within my own writing. They didn’t patronize me by patting me on the head and saying I was a “good little writer,” but instead they inspired me to look further and more widely at what was possible. And they taught me about revising annd eddditting. Edditing. Editing. To sharpen and distill.
Can creative writing and imagination be taught? Yes.
The writing teacher can offer new tools and approaches, absolutely, but most importantly, they help the writer discover, hone, and trust what is already there.
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Bear Sees Colors Against the Tide Tui T. Sutherland Karma Wilson Spirit Animals Colors, colors everywhere! Fifth in the series. By Mouse and Frog Deborah Freedman Frank Einstein and What happens when Frog the Antimatter Motor crashes into Mouse’s Jon Scieszka story with some wild A lightning storm and a fl ash ideas? Chaos! of electricity bring Frank’s inventions to life. Construction Sally Sutton Leroy Ninker Saddles Up There’s lots of noise and Kate DiCamillo excitement involved in Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso building a library. and boots. What he doesn’t have is a horse. Flashlight Lizi Boyd Princess in Black Inside a tent it’s cozy. But Shannon Hale what is going on outside? When trouble strikes, Is it dark? Is it scary? Not Princess Magnolia ditches if you have your trusty her fl ouncy dresses and fl ashlight. becomes the Princess in Black. Uni the Unicorn Amy Rosenthal SistersS Uni the unicorn is told Raina Telgemeier there’s no such things as Raina can’t wait to be a big little girls! sis ster, but things aren’t quite how she expected them to be. Unnatural Selections Wallace Edwards Sleeper Meet a collection of Eric Walters New secrets will be brought to magnifi cent creatures, from Seven Sequels the stately Whalephant to the lil ght. series. talented Lizabouboon.
TEEN FICTION
An Ember in Blue Lily, Lily Blue The Truth the Ashes Maggie Stiefvater Commission Sabaa Tahir Susan Juby I Was Here Ashes to Ashes Gayle Forman Unmarked Jenny Han The Infi nite Sea Kami Garcia Atlantia Rick Yancey Waterfall Ally Condie Lauren Kate Terminal Kathy Reichs
PAGE 44 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2014 new books for winter | ADULTAdult FICTIONFiction Alphabetique Molly Peacock The King of Shanghai Ian Hamilton Boston Girl Anita Diamant The Look of Love Sarah Jio Die Again Tess Gerritsen No Known Grave Maureen Jennings The Dress Shop of Dreams Punishment Menna van Praag Linden MacIntyre
Family Furnishings: Revival Selected Stories, Stephen King 1995-2014 Alice Munro Winter Street Elin Hilderbrand Flesh and Blood Patricia Cornwell
ADULT NON- FICTION
Chasing Gold: Flashpoints: The Incredible Story The Emerging Crisis Behind the Nazi in Europe Search for Europe’s George Friedman Bullion George M. Taber Resilience Jessie Close & One Tragic Night: Pete Earley The Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial The Attacker’s Mandy Wiener Advantage: Uncertainty’s Upside The 20/20 Diet Ram Charan Phil McGraw Effortless Healing: Brilliant: 9 Simple Ways to The Science of How Sidestep Illness, We Get Smarter Shed Excess Annie Murphy Paul Weight, and Help Your Body Fix Itself Count Me In: How Joseph Mercola I Stepped Off the Sidelines, Created I Can’t Remember Connection, and If We Said Goodbye Built a Fuller, Richer, Steve Earle More Lived-in Life Emily White
wwwwwww.londonpubliclibrary.ca • fall 2014 • PAGE 45 “Curiosity and community are the two things that spring to mind when I think of public libraries, because they’re in the community Sandra’s Story and everyone can use them. ”
The library has always been a wonderful place for me, as a child, I think the library is a fascinating place for people to come together as a young adult, as a working person, as a researcher. Most of as a community and also a place to go and to learn from each my life I attended libraries. I’m a library patron. I use the library, other. Curiosity and community are the two things that spring to borrow books and fi lms, and come to events, and I’ve supported mind when I think of public libraries, or any kind of library, but the library as a donor. I’ve also worked with the library to create especially public libraries, because they’re in the community and a fi lm series about my own passion, which is architecture and everyone can use them. Libraries have become such fascinating modernism. We just fi nished our third MidMod Movies series, community centres, really, and new libraries are being built as a series of fi lms about postwar and modernist architecture and community centres or integrated with community centres. I think design. The period of 1945 to the early 70s is kind of the window it’s exciting to see all the changes that have happened, how of time that we were looking at and it turned out that there were a libraries have changed and adapted to new perspectives of how lot of fi lms out there. It’s been quite successful. they can be used, have adapted to new technologies. They really have become so much more than just a place where books live. The idea originally started when I went to the Interior Design Show in Toronto and they happened to be doing a small fi lm series. Things are changing quickly, and ever more quickly, but if you They were showing six or eight fi lms, really interesting stuff I’d were to bring in a librarian from a hundred years ago into a current never seen before, and I made contact with a woman who was library, I think at fi rst they would be fl abbergasted and quite a distributor for many of the fi lms being screened. I talked to her shocked, but then I think they would recognize the things that about the fi lms just for my own interest. libraries have always stood for, which is the sharing of knowledge. At the base of it all is always curiosity. People are curious. When I came back to London I thought that we could show those fi lms here, that there might be some interest. I talked to some of The library is one of the places where people can go to learn. Be the library staff and they were very open to the idea. I put together it personal, political, community oriented, regardless of what your a proposal to show a series of six fi lms and contacted the library curiosity or question, library staff are very open to helping people through Community Services. They put me in touch with the Arts explore so many different things. Librarian and we just ran with it. I did some research on my own at home and put together a list of fi lms. So we had a list of fi lms Libraries are very valuable to the community. Invaluable. I can’t and got approvals from the various distributors and directors and imagine a community without a public library system. I want to it was a go. For our fi rst series in 2012 we had fi ve fi lms and one live in a world where we all benefi t as much asp ossible from a speaker. We had a great turnout, about 40 to 50 people at every really wide array of public services. The library to me is as much screening. part of a core of public service as hospitals and education and public transit.
“The library is one of the places where people can go to learn. Be it personal, political, community oriented, regardless of what your curiosity or question . . .”
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PAGE 46 • www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/2015 Community Borrowing Periods Late Charges Outreach Limit of 10 DVDs per card. London Public Library has a policy of Meeting Room Rentals Maximum of 40 items per card. collecting late charges on overdue materials Central Library: Call 519-661-5120 Books & paperbacks 21 days to encourage prompt return. Overdue 9 am-6 pm, Monday-Friday CDs & videos 21 days materials are charged on a calendar day Branch Libraries: Call the library location Quick Picks, DVDs, Magazines 7 days basis, including Sunday, at all locations. for rates & availability. Information fi le material: An electronic or phone message will be left Central Branch 7 days about overdue items 6 days after the due Distribution of Posters and Flyers High demand material 7 days date. Remember you can For cultural, community, educational, non- eBook up to 21 days pay fi nes online. profi t and charitable events and organizations. eAudio up to 14 days Bring items to the Central Library Welcome eVideo up to 5 days Give us your email ad- Desk for distribution to library locations and dress and we’ll send you a notice before fi ll out a distribution form. Bulletin board Renewals your materials are due. space is limited and demand is high - we Limit of 3 renewals. per item max. do our best to post as many requests as You cannot renew Quick Picks, high demand ADULT MATERIALS per day per item possible. materials or items with holds. DVDs, Quick Picks & $ 1 $10 Renew items Book Club in a Bag Art Exhibits • in person at any library All other materials 30¢ $ 9 We have space for art exhibits at many of our • online – use My Account tab CHILDREN’S MATERIALS library locations. If you would like to exhibit www.londonpubliclibrary.ca DVDs & Quick Picks $ 1 $ 6 your art ask at your local library branch or • by phone 519-661-4600 All other materials 15¢ $ 6 call 519-661-4600. Check to make sure your renewals were SENIOR CITIZENS (65+) successful and check the due date! DVDs, Quick Picks & InterLibrary Loan $ 1 $ 10 Outstanding late charges can affect your Book Club in a Bag You can borrow materials from many ability to renew. other library systems through our library’s All other materials 15¢ $ 6 InterLibrary Loan service. Returns You may return materials to any London Public Visiting Library Library. When we’re closed, return chutes are Accessibility Anyone unable to use standard library open for your use. We want to be accessible to you. Ask about our facilities may request home delivery by Please check to make sure that DVD or CD calling 519-661-6444. Visiting Library cases are not empty! resources and services Service also oversees the distribution of CNIB if you’d like to know more. Talking Books. Computers Settlement Services London Public and Internet for Newcomers Library Board All locations have computers you can use for The London Library Settlement Partnership Meets Thursday evenings monthly in the free with your valid, up-to-date library card. (LSP) provides information and referral Board Room at Central Library. Public session Ask staff about setting up a PIN to log in to services to newcomers about employment, begins at 5:30 pm. All are welcome. our computers or wireless network. volunteer opportunities, language learning Outgoing Board 2014 and assessment, and many other issues Public internet computers have a variety of related to settling in London. Library Chair: Gloria Leckie installed software for you to use and access Settlement Workers are on hand to help at Members: to printing for a small fee. four library locations: Central Library (2nd Councillor Nancy Branscombe fl oor), Beacock Branch, Jalna Branch and Councillor Matt Brown Connect to our wireless network on your Sherwood Branch. Jerry Colwell laptop or mobile device at all branches except Scott Courtice Glanworth. Jeff Gillies German Gutierrez To get started using a computer or internet, Josh Morgan check our program listings for sessions Donna Vachon designed to help you get going. www.londonpubliclibrary.ca • winter 2014/2015 • PAGE 47 Locationsocat o s Hours
BEACOCK 519-451-8140 STONEY CREEK Central & Children’s 1280 Huron St. N5Y 4M2 Monday 9 am–9 pm BYRON 519-471-4000 Tuesday 9 am–9 pm 1295 Commissioners Rd. W. N6K 1C9 MASONVILLE Wednesday 9 am–9 pm Windermere Rd. Thursday 9 am–9 pm CARSON 519-438-4287 Friday 9 am–6 pm SHERWOOD 465 Quebec St. N5W 3Y4 BEACOCK Saturday 9 am–5 pm CENTRAL LIBRARY & SPRIET FAMILY CHILDREN’S LIBRARY Beacock, Byron, 251 Dundas St. N6A 6H9 Cherryhill, Crouch, East General info: 519-661-4600 London, Jalna, Landon, Program registration: 519-661-5122 CHERRYHILL Masonville, Pond Mills, CHERRYHILL 519-439-6456 Sherwood, Stoney Creek, 301 Oxford St. W. N6H 1S6 Westmount CENTRAL/ CARSON Tuesday 9 am–9 pm CROUCH 519-673-0111 CHILDRENS Wednesday 9 am–9 pm 550 Hamilton Rd. N5Z 1S4 EAST LONDON Thursday 9 am–9 pm EAST LONDON 519-451-7600 BYRON Friday 9 am–6 pm 2016 Dundas St. E. N5V 1R1 Saturday 9 am–5 pm GLANWORTH 519-681-6797 CROUCH 2950 Glanworth Dr. N6N 1N6 Glanworth LANDON Tuesday 7–9 pm JALNA 519-685-6465 Saturday 10 am–noon 1119 Jalna Blvd. N6E 3B3 POND MILLS LAMBETH 519-652-2951 Carson & Lambeth 7112 Beattie St. N6P 1A2 Tues. 1–5 pm & 6–9 pm WESTMOUNT Wed. 9-noon & 1–5 pm LANDON 519-439-6240 Thurs. 1–5 pm & 6–9 pm 167 Wortley Rd. N6C 3P6 Fri. 9–noon & 1–5 pm MASONVILLE 519-660-4646 Sat. 9–noon & 1–5 pm JALNA 30 North Centre Rd. N5X 3W1 POND MILLS 519-685-1333 Ramped, level or elevator 1166 Commissioners Rd. E. N5Z 4W8 LAMBETH access to Library materials is available at all locations. SHERWOOD 519-473-9965 1225 Wonderland Rd. N. Unit #32 N6G 2V9 GLANWORTH STONEY CREEKK 519-930-2065 920 Sunningdale Rd. E. N5X 0H5 WESTMOUNT 519-473-4708 = Plaza or Community Centre 3200 Wonderland Rd. S. N6L 1A6 Not to scale
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